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Across
  1. 3. the act or process of making or becoming less wide, smaller in scope, or more focused.
  2. 4. the act, process, or result of making something less strong, powerful, intense, or effective.
  3. 7. expresses a negative meaning, a low opinion, or a lack of respect
  4. 8. making something wider, larger, or more general
Down
  1. 1. the act of making a bad or unpleasant situation better, or an improvement in the state of something
  2. 2. a phrase or expression where the words together have a different meaning than the words do by themselves.
  3. 5. a mild, polite, or indirect word or phrase that replaces a direct one that might feel too harsh, blunt, unpleasant, or socially taboo.
  4. 6. a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is another