Synonyms:
reduce, cut_down, cut_back, trim, trim_down, trim_back, cut, bring_down
Meaning: cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
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reduce
Meaning: make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
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reduce
Meaning: bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
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reduce
Meaning: simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
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reduce
Meaning: lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"
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reduce, come_down, boil_down
Meaning: be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
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shrink, reduce
Meaning: reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
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reduce
Meaning: lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"
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reduce, scale_down
Meaning: make smaller; "reduce an image"
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deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
Meaning: 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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reduce, tighten
Meaning: narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"
Usage examples
Drain the fish and reduce the liquid by rapid boiling to one cupful.
Nay, it may even reduce it to nothing, without nature thereby failing of her purpose.
However, if the weather doesn't clear by to-morrow, we must either march blindly on or reduce food.
If this or its equivalent be refused, reduce the fort as your judgment decides to be most practicable.
Varro placed his infantry in close and heavy order, so as to reduce their front to that of the Carthaginians.
Is it not time to lay aside the whole work of the dream interpretation as something whose results reduce it to absurdity?
We feel that such a world, if there were one, would upset the whole fabric of our knowledge and reduce us to utter doubt.
It combines cold air, heavy snow, and strong winds that blow the snow about and may reduce visibility to only a few yards.
The eel twists, and refuses to be swallowed; so the bird has to reduce its liveliness by rolling up and down in its sharp-edged beak.
De Lenz in a note quotes Meyerbeer as saying--Meyerbeer, who quarrelled with Chopin about the rhythm of a mazurka--"Can one reduce women to notation?