To reduce to half the original amount.
These show that since 1946 the fatality rate in train and movement accidents combined has been halved, [...].
To divide into two halves.
To make up half of.
So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.
From Middle English halven, helven, from Old English hilfan, helfan, *hielfan (“to halve, divide in two”), from Proto-West Germanic *halbijan, from Proto-Germanic *halbijaną (“to halve”), from Proto-G...
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