REDUCED
decreased, reduced
(adjective) made less in size or amount or degree
reduced, rock-bottom
(adjective) well below normal (especially in price)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
reduced
simple past tense and past participle of reduce
Adjective
reduced (comparative more reduced, superlative most reduced)
Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.
Discounted in price.
(cookery) Of a sauce etc.: made more concentrated.
Anagrams
• deducer
Source: Wiktionary
REDUCE
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