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Verb
reduce - cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down
minify, decrease, lessen decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
shorten become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten"
spill reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)
quench cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel"
cut grow through the gums; "The new tooth is cutting"
retrench make a reduction, as in one's workforce; "The company had to retrench"
slash cut drastically; "Prices were slashed"
thin out make sparse; "thin out the young plants"
thin make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution"
detract, take away take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables"
deflate become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated"
inflate fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons"
downsize reduce in size or number; "the company downsized its research staff"
subtract take off or away; "this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French"
knock off, shave remove body hair with a razor
reduce - cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
boil down, concentrate
minify, decrease, lessen decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
cookery, cooking, preparation the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"
reduce - take off weight
melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down
gain, put on increase (one's body weight); "She gained 20 pounds when she stopped exercising"
change state, turn undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"
sweat off lose weight by sweating; "I sweated off 3 pounds in the sauna"
reduce - make smaller; "reduce an image"
scale down
magnify, enlarge, blow up increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind"
shrink, reduce decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
reduce - make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
simplify make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent; "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives"
abbreviate shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"
reduce - destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
de-emphasise, de-emphasize, destress reduce the emphasis
linguistics the humanistic study of language and literature
obscure make obscure or unclear; "The distinction was obscured"
reduce - simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
substitute, interchange, replace, exchange put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
math, mathematics, maths a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
reduce - be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
come down, boil down
become, turn enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!"
reduce - narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"
tighten
trammel, limit, throttle, bound, restrict, restrain, confine restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
reduce - reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
reposition place into another position
reduce - undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"
part, divide, separate perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?"
reduce - lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"
demean, degrade, disgrace, take down, put down lower the grade of something; reduce its worth
reduce - lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"
impoverish make poor
reduce - bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
demote, kick downstairs, relegate, bump, break assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant"
reduce - reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
shrink
minify, decrease, lessen decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
scale down, reduce reduce proportionally; "The model is scaled down"
reef reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef
miniaturise, miniaturize design or construct on a smaller scale
depopulate, desolate reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
downsize reduce in size or number; "the company downsized its research staff"
contract be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"
reduce - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract
expatiate, lucubrate, dilate, exposit, expound, flesh out, elaborate, enlarge, expand become wider; "His pupils were dilated"
minify, decrease, lessen decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, castrate, shorten edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"
edit out, edit, cut prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"
condense, concentrate, digest undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature"
reduce - 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
deoxidize, deoxidise
oxidate, oxidise, oxidize enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide; "This metal oxidizes easily"
change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
chemical science, chemistry the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions
benficiate subject to a reduction process; "benficiate ores"
pole deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole
reduce - lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
dilute, thin, thin out, cut
weaken become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days"
water down thin by adding water to; "They watered down the moonshine"
reduce - be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
boil down, decoct, concentrate
decrease, diminish, lessen, fall decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
cookery, cooking, preparation the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"
reduce - put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate
oppress, suppress, crush come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists"
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Verb
reduce - To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
reduce - To lose weight.
reduce - To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
reduce - To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
reduce - To bring to an inferior state or condition.
reduce - To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
reduce - To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
reduce - To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
reduce - To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
reduce - To convert to written form Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing".
reduce - To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

OmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • reduce
    To thicken a liquid mixture such as a sauce by evaporation.
  • reduce
    To cut down on; to make a reduction in (especially costs, jobs, e.g. with financial and administrative acts).
  • reduce
    Euphemism for "reduce", "make worse, smaller or less", "give up".

Verb

  • Infinitiv: (to) reduce
  • Presens: reduce / reduces
  • Preteritum: reduced
  • Perfektum: (have) reduced

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