The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word REDUCED
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result REDUCED
- Discounted wine leader brought in
- Cut grass covering bird, except for tail
- Cut grass nested by tailless duck
- Cut grass hides bird without tail
- Ruminant eating partially-digested food the wrong way got smaller
- Thinned and thickened
- Became thicker — and became thinner
- Concentrated but looking embarrassed, cued poorly
- Tailless aquatic bird found in grass, weakened
- Devalued communist accommodates dictator
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What does REDUCED mean?
REDUCED verb- To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- To lose weight.
- To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
- To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
- To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- To reform a line or column from (a square).
- To strike off the payroll.
- To annul by legal means.
- To translate (a book, document, etc.).
- Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.
- Discounted in price.
- Of a sauce etc.: made more concentrated.