Reduce

Verb

 * 1)  To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
 * 2) * to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
 * 3)  To lose weight.
 * 4)  To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
 * 5) * to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
 * 6) * An ancient but reduced family. --Sir Walter Scott.
 * 7) * Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. --John Tillotson.
 * 8) * Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears. -- John Milton.
 * 9) * Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. --Nathaniel Hawthorne.
 * 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."
 * 1)  To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
 * 2) * to reduce a province or a fort
 * 3)  To bring to an inferior state or condition.
 * 4) * to reduce a city to ashes
 * 5)  To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
 * 6)  To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
 * 7)  To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
 * 8)  To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
 * 9)  To convert to written form (Usage note:  this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").
 * 10) * It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
 * 1) * It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.

Related terms

 * reducible
 * reductase
 * reduction
 * reductive

Adverbs for Reduce
materially; sharply; correspondingly; emphatically; deliberately; necessarily; rigorously; substantially; markedly; radically; drastically.

Thesaurus
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abrade, abridge, abstract, acetify, acidify, acidulate, adjust, adjust to, adulterate, afflict, alkalify, alkalize, allay, alleviate, allow, alter, analyze, anatomize, anesthetize, appease, apportion, assay, assimilate to, assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, bankrupt, baptize, bate, bear down, beat down, become, beggar, belittle, bend, benumb, blunt, bob, boil down, borate, box in, break, break down, break up, bring down, bring low, bring to, bring to terms, bump, bust, capsulize, carbonate, catalyze, change, change into, change over, charge off, chasten, cheapen, chemical, chlorinate, circumscribe, clip, coarct, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, condition, conquer, consolidate, constrain, constrict, constringe, contract, control, convert, couch, count, count calories, cramp, cripple, crop, crush, curtail, cushion, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut prices, cut short, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deaden the pain, debase, debilitate, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, demean, demote, deplume, depreciate, depress, derange, derogate, detract, detrude, devaluate, devitalize, diet, dilute, diminish, disable, discount, disgrade, disorder, disparage, displume, dissect, distill, dive, divide, do over, dock, downbear, downgrade, downplay, drain, draw, draw in, draw together, drop, dull, dump, dump on, ease, ease matters, eat away, electrolyze, elide, enervate, enfeeble, epitomize, erode, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, extract, fall, fall in price, fell, ferment, file away, fix, flatten, foment, foreshorten, give relief, give way, grind, gruel, haul down, hedge, hedge about, homopolymerize, hospitalize, humble, humiliate, hydrate, hydrogenate, hydroxylate, impair, impoverish, increase, indent, indispose, invalid, irrigate, isomerize, jew down, keep within bounds, kick back, knit, knock down, lay, lay low, lay up, leach, leaven, lenify, lessen, let down, let up on, lighten, limit, lose flesh, lose weight, lower, lull, make, make allowance, make over, mark down, master, measure, minimize, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, mollify, mow, narrow, naturalize, nip, nitrate, nose-dive, numb, number, obtund, overmaster, override, oversimplify, overwhelm, oxidize, pad, palliate, parcel, pare, pauperize, pepsinate, peroxidize, phosphatize, play down, plummet, plunge, poll, pollard, polymerize, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, powder, press down, prostrate, prune, pucker, pucker up, pull down, pulp, purify, purse, push down, put down, qualify, quantify, quantize, quell, rarefy, rate, rattle, reap, rebate, recap, recapitulate, reconvert, reduce the temperature, reduce to, reduce to elements, reduce weight, refine, refund, regulate by, relieve, remove, render, reset, resolve, resolve into, restrain, restrict, retrench, reverse, ride down, roll back, rub, rub away, sag, salve, sap, scale down, season, segment, separate, set, set conditions, set down, set limits, shake, shake up, shave, shear, shift, shorten, sicken, simplify, sink, slacken, slake, slash, slenderize, slim, slim down, slow down, slump, smash, smother, snub, sober, sober down, soften, soften up, solidify, soothe, step down, stifle, strangle, strangulate, streamline, strip down, strip of rank, stunt, stupe, subdivide, subduct, subdue, subjugate, subtract, sulfate, sulfatize, sulfonate, sum up, summarize, suppress, switch, switch over, synopsize, take a premium, take away, take down, take from, take in, take off, take off weight, tame, telescope, temper, thin, thin down, thin out, thrust down, tone down, trample down, trample underfoot, transform, tread underfoot, trim, trip up, triturate, truncate, tune down, turn, turn back, turn into, tyrannize, unbrace, undermine, underplay, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, vanquish, water, water down, weaken, wear away, weed, weight-watch, withdraw, work, wrinkle, write off

Etymology
reducere:, present active infinitive of reduco:; from re-:, + duco:. See duke:, and compare with redoubt:.

Translations

 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 減らす
 * Latin:


 * Polish: zmniejszać / zmniejszyć, obniżać / obniżyć
 * Russian: уменьшать
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese:


 * Polish: stracić na wadzę, schudnąć, zeszczupleć
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 下げる, 切り詰める


 * Polish: degradować / zdegradować
 * Russian: понижать


 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Japanese: 降伏, 鎮圧


 * Finnish:


 * Japanese:


 * Finnish: keittää kokoon
 * Hungarian: besűrít


 * Japanese: 煮詰める


 * Finnish:


 * Japanese: 還元


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: 不純物を取り除く


 * Polish: wytopić / wytapiać


 * Estonian: taandama
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 簡約, 約分
 * Polish: uprościć / upraszczać, skrócić / skracać
 * Russian: упрощать


 * : 减少 (jiǎnshǎo), 减小 (jiǎnxiǎo)
 * : verminderen, reduceren
 * : diminuer, réduire
 * : vermindern, reduzieren
 * : vermindern, reduzieren


 * : 빼다 (bbaeda), 줄이다 (julida), 감소 (gamso)
 * : reduzir
 * : mermar, reducir, disminuir, rebajar
 * : reducera

Adjective
(da)


 * 1) returning (from)

Noun

 * 1) survivor
 * 2) veteran (of a conflict)

Anagrams

 * ducere

Verb

 * 1)  to reduce, to lessen

Etymology
reducere:, réduire:.

Derived terms

 * reducător
 * reducere
 * reductibil
 * reductor
 * reducție
 * redus