REDUCE

Definition:

1. [verb] cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
   Synonyms: cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down
   
   
2. [verb] make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
   
   
3. [verb] bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
   
   
4. [verb] simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
   
   
5. [verb] lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"
   
   
6. [verb] be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
   Synonyms: come down, boil down
   
   
7. [verb] reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
   Synonyms: shrink
   
   
8. [verb] lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"
   
   
9. [verb] make smaller; "reduce an image"
   Synonyms: scale down
   
   
10. [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
    
    
11. [verb] narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"
    Synonyms: tighten
    
    
12. [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"
    Synonyms: repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate
    
    
13. [verb] undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"
    
    
14. [verb] reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
    
    
15. [verb] reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
    Synonyms: abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract
    
    
16. [verb] be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
    Synonyms: boil down, decoct, concentrate
    
    
17. [verb] cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
    Synonyms: boil down, concentrate
    
    
18. [verb] lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
    Synonyms: dilute, thin, thin out, cut
    
    
19. [verb] take off weight
    Synonyms: melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down
    
    

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Related Words:

• shorten
• quench
• retrench
• slash
• thin out
• thin
• take away, detract
• deflate
• inflate
• shave, knock off
• abbreviate
• reduce, scale down
• reef
• miniaturize, miniaturise
• depopulate, desolate
• contract
• benficiate
• pole
• bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten
• digest, condense, concentrate
• water down
• sweat off

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