nether vs small

nether

verb
  • To depreciate; disparage; undervalue. 

  • To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble. 

  • To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress. 

  • To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble. 

  • To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten. 

adv
  • Down; downward. 

  • Low; low down. 

noun
  • Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence. 

  • A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal. 

adj
  • Lower; under. 

  • Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface. 

small

verb
  • To become small; to dwindle. 

noun
  • Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back. 

  • One who fits an item of that size. 

  • One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured. 

  • An item labelled or denoted as being that size. 

adv
  • In a small fashion 

  • In or into small pieces. 

adj
  • Young, as a child. 

  • Humiliated or insignificant. 

  • Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters. 

  • Not large or big; insignificant; few in number. 

  • That is small (the manufactured size). 

  • Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean. 

  • Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short. 

  • Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”) 

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