Meaning of குறைவு in English

To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
Destruction; -- opposed to creation.
The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.
The quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment.
A name given by Hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced.
The quantity by which a variable is diminished.
To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
To crackle, as salt in roasting.
The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.
Decrepitude.
The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
A decree.
To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc.
The act of depleting or emptying.
the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.
Diminution.
Small; diminished; diminutive.
Lessening.
The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase.
The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement.
Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record.
In counterpoint, the imitation of, or reply to, a subject, in notes of half the length or value of those the subject itself.
Below the average size; very small; little.
Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
Tending to diminish.
Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin.
The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
Downcast or melancholy look.
A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling.
The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity.
Brevity; conciseness.
A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses.
A slip; an error; a fault; a failing in duty; a slight deviation from truth or rectitude.
The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency; hence, the devolution of a right or privilege.
A fall or apostasy.
To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses.
To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.
To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of some one, as a patron, a legatee, etc.
To become ineffectual or void; to fall.
To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass.
To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender.
The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity.
Quality or condition of being scanty.
The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness.
The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness of breath.