Some common synonyms of prolong are extend, lengthen, and protract. While all these words mean “to draw out or add to so as to increase in length,” prolong suggests chiefly increase in duration especially beyond usual limits.

What is the opposite of prolong?

Antonyms for reduce

• Antonyms: lucubrate, dilate, elaborate, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, enlarge, flesh out.
• Antonyms: gain, put on.
• Antonyms: blow up, magnify, enlarge.
• Antonyms: oxidate, oxidise, oxidize.

other words for reduce

• cut.
• dwindle.
• lessen.
• lower.
• pare.
• shorten.
• slash.
• trim.

benefit. Antonyms: evil, loss, disadvantage, detriment, damage, calamity, bereavement, injury, privation. Synonyms: boon, behoof, service, utility, avail, use, good, advantage, profit, favor, blessing.

1 : to make smaller or less reduce expenses Reduce your speed ahead. 2 : to bring to a usually worse state The story reduced them to tears. 3 : to lower in grade or rank. 4 : to change to a simpler form Reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. 5 : to lose weight by dieting.

transitive verb. 1a : to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression feign death. b : to assert as if true : pretend He feigned that he was not feeling well so that he could leave the party early.

“diminish, become less, shrink,” 1590s (Shakespeare), apparently diminutive and frequentative of dwine “waste or pine away,” from Middle English dwinen “waste away, fade, vanish,” from Old English dwinan, from Proto-Germanic *dwinana (source also of Dutch dwijnen “to vanish,” Old Norse dvina, Danish tvine “to pine away …