| tightening(noun, limit, reduction, constraint, drawing) | |
| wrinkle(noun, line, fold, crease, crinkle) | |
| abbreviating(noun, reduction, drawing, shrinking, lowering) | |
| abbreviature(shortness, compendium) | |
| about-face(noun, break, change, advance, turn) | |
| abridging(noun, reduction, drawing, shrinkage, tightening) | |
| absorption | |
| addition(noun, break, change, advance, turn) | |
| adherence | |
| adhesion | |
| adjustment(noun, break, change, advance, turn) | |
| advance(noun, break, change, turn, development) | |
| agitation(noun, fit, seizure, tremor, spasm) | |
| angustation | |
| apocope | |
| aposiopesis | |
| arrowhead | |
| atrophy | |
| attrition(noun, cut, decline, decrease, discount) | |
| backflow(decrease, ebb, deflation) |
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