Reduce (Verb)
Meaning 1
Cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time".
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Meaning 2
Undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce".
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Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
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Meaning 3
Lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant".
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Verbs of feeling.
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Meaning 4
Lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living".
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Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
Meaning 5
Be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise".
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Meaning 6
Cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits".
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Meaning 7
Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon".
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Meaning 8
Narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners".
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Meaning 9
Bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery".
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Verbs of political and social activities and events.
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Meaning 10
Reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?".
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Meaning 11
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".
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Verbs of political and social activities and events.
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Meaning 12
Reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site.
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Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Meaning 13
Make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question".
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Meaning 14
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.
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Meaning 15
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened".
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Meaning 16
Be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup".
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Meaning 17
Make smaller; "reduce an image".
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Meaning 18
Destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it.
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Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The dialect reduces the vowel sound in 'happy' to a shorter and more subtle sound.
- To pronounce the word correctly, try to reduce the emphasis on the first syllable.
- In informal settings, the sound of 'th' is often reduced to a simpler 'd' or 't' sound.
- In relaxed speech, the word 'and' is frequently reduced to a softer 'n' sound.
- Regional accents may reduce certain consonant sounds in specific words for easier pronunciation.
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Meaning 19
Take off weight.
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Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care.
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Meaning 20
Simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another.
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Verbs of buying, selling, owning.