Word Information

Reduce

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Definitions for Reduce

verb
cut down on
Synonyms
cut down cut back trim trim down trim back cut bring down
Examples
  1. make a reduction in
  2. reduce your daily fat intake
  3. The employer wants to cut back health benefits
verb
make less complex
Examples
  1. reduce a problem to a single question
verb
bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
Examples
  1. He reduced the population to slavery
verb
simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
verb
lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
Examples
  1. She reduced her niece to a servant
verb
be the essential element
Synonyms
come down boil down
Examples
  1. The proposal boils down to a compromise
verb
reduce in size
Synonyms
shrink
Examples
  1. reduce physically
  2. Hot water will shrink the sweater
  3. Can you shrink this image?
verb
lessen and make more modest
Examples
  1. reduce one's standard of living
verb
make smaller
Synonyms
scale down
Examples
  1. reduce an image
verb
to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
Synonyms
deoxidize deoxidise
verb
narrow or limit
Synonyms
tighten
Examples
  1. reduce the influx of foreigners
verb
put down by force or intimidation
Synonyms
repress quash keep down subdue subjugate
Examples
  1. The government quashes any attempt of an uprising
  2. China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently
  3. The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land
verb
undergo meiosis
Examples
  1. The cells reduce
verb
reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
verb
destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
verb
reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
Synonyms
abridge foreshorten abbreviate shorten cut contract
Examples
  1. The manuscript must be shortened
verb
be cooked until very little liquid is left
Synonyms
boil down decoct concentrate
Examples
  1. The sauce should reduce to one cup
verb
cook until very little liquid is left
Synonyms
boil down concentrate
Examples
  1. The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
verb
lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
Synonyms
dilute thin thin out cut
Examples
  1. cut bourbon
verb
take off weight
Synonyms
melt off slim slenderize thin slim down

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