REDUCE

reduce, melt off, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down

(verb) take off weight

dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut

(verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; “cut bourbon”

reduce, tighten

(verb) narrow or limit; “reduce the influx of foreigners”

reduce, boil down, concentrate

(verb) cook until very little liquid is left; “The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time”

deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce

(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

reduce, scale down

(verb) make smaller; “reduce an image”

shrink, reduce

(verb) reduce in size; reduce physically; “Hot water will shrink the sweater”; “Can you shrink this image?”

reduce

(verb) make less complex; “reduce a problem to a single question”

abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce

(verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; “The manuscript must be shortened”

reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down

(verb) cut down on; make a reduction in; “reduce your daily fat intake”; “The employer wants to cut back health benefits”

reduce

(verb) reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site

reduce

(verb) undergo meiosis; “The cells reduce”

reduce

(verb) lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; “She reduced her niece to a servant”

reduce

(verb) simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another

reduce

(verb) lessen and make more modest; “reduce one’s standard of living”

reduce

(verb) bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; “He reduced the population to slavery”

repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce

(verb) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

reduce (third-person singular simple present reduces, present participle reducing, simple past and past participle reduced)

(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.

(intransitive) To lose weight.

(transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.

• Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced.

(transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.

(transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.

(transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.

(transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.

(transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.

(transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.

(transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.

(transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form

(transitive, legal) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)

(transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

(transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).

(transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.

(transitive, Scotland, legal) To annul by legal means.

(transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).

Synonyms

• (to bring down): cut, decrease, lower

• (cooking): inspissate; see also thicken

Antonyms

• (to bring down): increase

Source: Wiktionary

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Re*duce" (re*dus"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reduced (-dust"),; p. pr. & vb. n. Reducing (-du"sîng).] Etym: [L. reducere, reductum; pref. red- . re-, re- + ducere to lead. See Duke, and cf. Redoubt, n.]

1. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. [Obs.] And to his brother's house reduced his wife. Chapman. The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us. Evelyn.

2. To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat. "An ancient but reduced family." Sir W. Scott. Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. Tillotson. Having reduced Their foe to misery beneath their fears. Milton. Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. Hawthorne.

3. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.

4. To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp. It were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust. Milton.

5. To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.

6. (Arith.) (a) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours. (b) To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.

7. (Chem.)

Definition: To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to Ant: oxidize.

8. (Med.)

Definition: To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia. Reduced iron (Chem.), metallic iron obtained through deoxidation of an oxide of iron by exposure to a current of hydrogen or other reducing agent. When hydrogen is used the product is called also iron by hydrogen.

– To reduce an equation (Alg.), to bring the unknown quantity by itself on one side, and all the known quantities on the other side, without destroying the equation.

– To reduce an expression (Alg.), to obtain an equivalent expression of simpler form.

– To reduce a square (Mil.), to reform the line or column from the square.

Syn.

– To diminish; lessen; decrease; abate; shorten; curtail; impair; lower; subject; subdue; subjugate; conquer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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