Meaning of reduce | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
   transitive
2. To lose weight.
   intransitive
3. To concentrate a liquid by boiling it without a cover, causing water to evaporate.
4. To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
   transitive
5. nopend يُمْكِن تَحْويلُه أو تَخْفيضُه съкратим reduzível / redutível redukovatelný herabsetzbar reducerbar ελαττώσιμος reducible vähendatav ساده شدنی؛ تقلیل پذیر vähennettävä réductible נִיתָן לְצִמצוּם बदलने योग्य, रूपांतरित होने योग्य koji se dade reducirati, rastavljiv csökkenthető bisa dikurangi minnkanlegur, smækkanlegur riducibile 減らせる 축소할 수 있는 galimas sumažinti samazināms; pazemināms boleh dikurangkan reduceerbaarreduserbar dający się zredukować كم كيدونكي reduzível reductibil допускае...
6. To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
   transitive
7. The government promised a reduction in prices later; price reductions. verlaging تَخْفيض намаление redução snížení die Herabsetzung reduktion; -reduktion; nedsættelse; -nedsættelse μείωση, έκπτωσηreducción alandamine کاهش alennus réductionירידה कटौती smanjenje leszállítás, csökkentés penurunan lækkun riduzione 縮小 축소 sumažinimas, nuolaida pazeminājums; atlaide pengurangan verlagingnedskjæring, reduksjonobniżka كموونه، لږونه redução reducere снижение zníženie zmanjšanje smanjenje reducering, mi...
8. To bring down, as in extent, amount, or degree; diminish. See Synonyms at decrease.
9. To bring to an inferior state or condition.
   transitive
10. To bring to a humbler, weaker, difficult, or forced state or condition; especially:a. To gain control of; subject or conquer: "a design to reduce them under absolute despotism" (Declaration of Independence).
11. To be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy).
    transitive
12. To thicken or intensify the flavor of (a sauce, for example) by slow boiling.
13. To decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.
    transitive
14. To lower the price of: The store has drastically reduced winter coats.
15. To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
    transitive
16. To decrease the viscosity of (paint, for example), as by adding a solvent.
17. To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
    transitive
18. To put in a simpler or more systematic form; simplify or codify: reduced her ideas to a collection of maxims.
19. To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
    transitive
20. To turn into powder; pulverize.
21. To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
    transitive
22. To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
    transitive
23. To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
    transitive
24. To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
    transitive
25. To reform a line or column from (a square).
    transitive
26. To strike off the payroll.
    transitive
27. To annul by legal means.
    transitive
28. To pronounce (a sound or word) with less effort.
    transitive
29. To translate (a book, document, etc.).
    obsolete, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.”

“Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.”

“Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID.”

“to reduce a sergeant to the ranks”

“My father, the eldest son of an ancient but reduced family, left me with little.”

“nothing so excellent but a man may falten upon something or other belonging to it whereby to reduce it .”

“Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears.”

“Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced.”

“Neither [Jones][…] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."”

“to reduce a province or a fort”

“to reduce a city to ashes”

“reduced to silence”

“The press release calls him "the hottest female impressionist in show business today." (One wonders how many more words press agents will have to come up with before they are reduced to actually saying "drag queen.")”

“Serve the oxtails with mustard or a sauce made by reducing the soup, if any is left, to a slightly thick sauce.”

“Formaldehyde can be reduced to form methanol.”

“It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.”

“The first vowel of support is reduced to schwa by most English speakers.”

“a book reduced into English”

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