reduce in English dictionary

  • reduce

    Meanings and definitions of "reduce"

    • (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
    • (intransitive) To lose weight.
    • (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
    • (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
    • (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
    • (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
    • (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
    • (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
    • (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
    • (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To lose weight.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To bring to an inferior state or condition.
    • verb
      (transitive, cooking)
      To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
    • verb
      (transitive, chemistry)
      To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
    • verb
      (transitive, metallurgy)
      To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
    • verb
      (transitive, mathematics)
      To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
    • verb
      (transitive, logic)
      To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
    • verb
      (transitive, law)
      To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").
    • verb
      (transitive, medicine)
      To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
    • verb
      (transitive, military)
      To reform a line or column from (a square).
    • verb
      (transitive, obsolete)
      To translate (a book, document, etc.).
    • In a graphical user interface, to decrease the size of a window. A user can reduce a window either by clicking the appropriate button in the title bar or by clicking the mouse on the border of the window and dragging the border toward the middle of the window.
    • to bring down
    • metallurgy: to remove non-metals from metal
    • math: to simplify a formula
    • to lose weight
    • to bring to an inferior rank
    • to bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture
    • to bring to an inferior state or condition
    • to decrease the liquid in food
    • chemistry: to add electrons to or remove hydrogen
    • To thicken a liquid mixture such as a sauce by evaporation
    • To cut down on; to make a reduction in (especially costs, jobs, e.g. with financial and administrative acts).
    • verb
      be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
    • verb
      be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
    • verb
      bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
    • verb
      cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
    • verb
      cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
    • verb
      destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
    • verb
      lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"
    • verb
      lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
    • verb
      lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"
    • verb
      make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
    • verb
      make smaller; "reduce an image"
    • verb
      narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"
    • 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"
    • verb
      reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
    • verb
      reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
    • verb
      reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
    • verb
      simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
    • verb
      take off weight
    • 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
    • verb
      undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"

    Synonyms of "reduce" in English dictionary

    take down, contract, divide are the top synonyms of "reduce" in the English thesaurus.

    Antonyms of "reduce" in English dictionary

    gain, oxidize, expand are the top antonyms of "reduce" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of reduce

    • reduce ( third-person singular simple present reduces, present participle reducing, simple past and past participle reduced)
    • reduced, reducing, reduces
    • reduce (third-person singular simple present reduces, present participle reducing, simple past and past participle reduced)
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