To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
To take in the slack of (a rope).
To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
To become shorter.
To make shorter; to abbreviate.
To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
To make sweet to the taste.
To supplement (a composition) with additional instruments, especially strings.
To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter.
To make warm and fertile.
To restore to purity; to free from taint.
To become sweet.
To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
To make more attractive; said of offers in negotiations.
To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings.
To make mild or kind; to soften.