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Reduce

rɪˈdjuːs

Reduce definitions
verb
reduce reduced reduces reducing
  1. make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size

    "the need for businesses to reduce costs"

    lessen make less make smaller lower bring down decrease turn down diminish take the edge off minimize make cheaper lower the price of lower/cut in price cheapen cut mark down discount put on sale offer at a giveaway price
    • become smaller or less in size, amount, or degree

      "the number of priority homeless cases has reduced slightly"

    • boil (a sauce or other liquid) in cooking so that it becomes thicker and more concentrated

      "increase the heat and reduce the liquid"

    • (of a person) lose weight, typically by dieting

      "by May she had reduced to 9 stone"

    • make (a negative or print) less dense
    • articulate (a speech sound) in a way requiring less muscular effort, giving rise in vowels to a more central articulatory position
  2. bring someone or something to (a worse or less desirable state or condition)

    "she has been reduced to near poverty"

    bring to bring to the point of force into drive into
    • be forced by difficult circumstances into doing something desperate

      "ordinary soldiers are reduced to begging"

    • make someone helpless with (shock, anguish, or amusement)

      "Olga was reduced to stunned silence"

    • force someone into (obedience or submission)

      "he reduced his grandees to due obedience"

  3. change a substance to (a different or more basic form)

    "it is difficult to understand how lava could have been reduced to dust"

    • present a problem or subject in (a simplified form)

      "he reduces unimaginable statistics to manageable proportions"

    • convert a fraction to (the form with the lowest terms)
  4. cause to combine chemically with hydrogen

    "hydrogen for reducing the carbon dioxide"

    • undergo or cause to undergo a reaction in which electrons are gained from another substance or molecule

      "this compound reduces to potassium chloride"

  5. restore (a dislocated part of the body) to its proper position by manipulation or surgery

    "Joe's reducing a dislocated thumb"

  6. besiege and capture (a town or fortress)