Put it in a bowl and make it smaller (8)
I believe the answer is:
diminish
'make it smaller' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'put it in a bowl' is the wordplay.
'put' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'it' becomes 'im' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a bowl' becomes 'dish' (a bowl is a type of dish).
'im'+'in'='imin'
'imin' put into 'dish' is 'DIMINISH'.
'and' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for diminish that I've seen before include "Decrease, lessen" , "Become smaller or less" , "Grow smaller, shrink" , "Make less with mini dish" , "get shorter" .)