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Reduce   /rədˈus/  /rɪdˈus/  /ridˈus/   Listen
Reduce

verb
(past & past part. reduced; pres. part. reducing)
1.
Cut down on; make a reduction in.  Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, trim, trim back, trim down.  "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
2.
Make less complex.
3.
Bring to humbler or weaker state or condition.
4.
Simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another.
5.
Lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation.
6.
Be the essential element.  Synonyms: boil down, come down.
7.
Reduce in size; reduce physically.  Synonym: shrink.  "Can you shrink this image?"
8.
Lessen and make more modest.
9.
Make smaller.  Synonym: scale down.
10.
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: deoxidise, deoxidize.
11.
Narrow or limit.  Synonym: tighten.
12.
Put down by force or intimidation.  Synonyms: keep down, quash, repress, subdue, subjugate.  "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently" , "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
13.
Undergo meiosis.
14.
Reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site.
15.
Destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it.
16.
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.  Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, shorten.
17.
Be cooked until very little liquid is left.  Synonyms: boil down, concentrate, decoct.
18.
Cook until very little liquid is left.  Synonyms: boil down, concentrate.
19.
Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture.  Synonyms: cut, dilute, thin, thin out.
20.
Take off weight.  Synonyms: lose weight, melt off, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin.



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"Reduce" Quotes from Famous Books



... overlooked the difference between this country and Sambas. There they have numerous rivers in the vicinity of their settlements—here but one; and, the Dyak population being against them, starvation would soon reduce them to terms. The Royalist arrived about the end of March, and sailed again on the ...
— The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido - For the Suppression of Piracy • Henry Keppel
... Where was that soul hidden out of the ken of the anatomist? When philosophers attempted to define it, were they not compelled to confound its nature and its actions with those of the mind? Could they reduce it to the mere moral sense, varying according to education, circumstances, and physical constitution? But even the moral sense in the most virtuous of men may be swept away by a fever. Such at the time ...
— A Strange Story, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... streets down town were filled with hungry forms, the remnant of the World's Fair mob swelled by the unemployed strikers. The city was poor, too. The school funds were inadequate. The usual increase in salary could not be paid. Instead, the board resolved to reduce the pay of the grade teachers, who had the lowest wages. Alves received but forty dollars a month now, and had been refused a night school for which ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... care should be taken to cut from the side toward the end and not into the grain, lest the piece split, Fig. 75. In horizontal end paring, Fig. 74, in order to prevent splintering, it is well to trim down the arrises diagonally to the line and then to reduce the rest of ...
— Handwork in Wood • William Noyes
... taking the portraits of gentlemen that are "wanted" infallible, and I anticipate some unpleasant mistakes will ere long arise. I have observed that inability to recognize a portrait is as frequent in the case of photographs as on canvass, or in any other way. I defy the whole world of artists to reduce the why and wherefore into a reasonable shape; one will declare that "either" looks as if the individual was going to cry; the next critic will say he sees nothing but a pleasant smile. "I should never have known who it is if you hadn't told me," says a third; ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 • Various


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