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What's The Definition Of Reduce?
[v] take off weight
[v] lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon" [v] narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners" [v] cook until very little liquid is left, as of sauces; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time" [v] be cooked until very little is left; as of sauces; "The sauce should reduce to one cup" [v] be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise" [v] remove oxygen from a compound, in chemistry [v] make smaller; "reduce an image" [v] reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" [v] make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question" [v] reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" [v] cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" [v] reposition back to its normal site, as of a broken bone, in surgery [v] undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce" [v] lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant" [v] simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another [v] lessen; "reduced standard of living" [v] bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery" [v] 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 | Synonyms for Reduce: abridge | boil down | bring down | come down | concentrate | cut | cut back | cut down | decoct | deoxidise | deoxidize | dilute | foreshorten | keep down | lose weight | melt off | quash | repress | scale down | shorten | slenderize | slim | slim down | subdue | subjugate | thin | thin | thin out | tighten | trim | trim back | trim down Related Terms | Find terms related to Reduce: See Also | abbreviate | become | benficiate | bound | bowdlerise | bowdlerize | break | bump | castrate | change | change state | clamp down | condense | confine | contract | crush | decrease | deflate | degrade | demean | demote | depopulate | desolate | detract | diminish | disgrace | divide | expurgate | fall | impoverish | inflate | kick downstairs | knock off | lessen | limit | miniaturise | miniaturize | minify | oppress | part | pole | put down | quench | reduce | reef | relegate | replace | reposition | restrain | restrict | retrench | separate | shave | shrink | simplify | slash | substitute | suppress | sweat off | take away | throttle | trammel | turn | turn | water down | weaken Reduce In Webster's Dictionary \Re*duce"\ (r[-e]*d[=u]s"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reduced}
(-d[=u]st"),; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reducing} (-d[=u]"s[i^]ng).]
[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.) 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
{oxidize}.
8. (Med.) 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.
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