Definition:
- (n.) To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.
Compare reduce with other words:
reduce vs. seduce
reduce vs. reduced
educe vs. reduce
loss vs. reduce
reduce vs. resist
conduce vs. reduce
abatement vs. reduce
reduce vs. regulation
reduce vs. short
reduce vs. slowdown
abet vs. reduce
reduce vs. subside
reduce vs. undermine
abridge vs. reduce
reduce vs. scaleback
benothing vs. reduce
downbear vs. reduce
reduce vs. reducent
defalk vs. reduce
reduce vs. sweal
bestialize vs. reduce
reduce vs. skeletonize
antiphlogistic vs. reduce
reduce vs. vivificate
fall vs. reduce
reduce vs. tamp
eliminate vs. reduce
distract vs. reduce
deduct vs. reduce
cad vs. reduce
canis vs. reduce
minimize vs. reduce
reduce vs. relieve
assuage vs. reduce
motorcycle vs. reduce
alleviate vs. reduce
beneficiate vs. reduce
decoct vs. reduce
reduce vs. retrench
reduce vs. reducer
alcoholize vs. reduce
calcine vs. reduce
reduce vs. smother
reduce vs. silencer
deplete vs. reduce
downplay vs. reduce
anchor vs. reduce
redact vs. reduce
produce vs. reduce
decline vs. reduce
reduce vs. shrink
reduce vs. reduct
cinder vs. reduce
aerodynamic vs. reduce
lighten vs. reduce
elevate vs. reduce
lessen vs. reduce
reduce vs. suppress
reduce vs. roller
reduce vs. trim
reduce vs. subtract
downgrade vs. reduce
lubrication vs. reduce
deodorant vs. reduce
dumb vs. reduce
reduce vs. whittle
constrain vs. reduce
reduce vs. suffocate
attenuate vs. reduce
foreshorten vs. reduce
depopulate vs. reduce
inspissate vs. reduce
reduce vs. shorten
narcotic vs. reduce
dwindle vs. reduce
downsize vs. reduce
miniature vs. reduce
enervate vs. reduce
commute vs. reduce
reduce vs. vassal
curtail vs. reduce
reduce vs. refine
discount vs. reduce
reduce vs. vitiate
derogate vs. reduce
bate vs. reduce
cull vs. reduce
contract vs. reduce
ease vs. reduce
mitigate vs. reduce
dock vs. reduce
deflate vs. reduce
obtund vs. reduce
press vs. reduce
reduce vs. reductive
reduce vs. reducible
alignment vs. reduce
fracture vs. reduce
dislocation vs. reduce
reduce vs. simplify
reduce vs. reduction
reduce vs. smelter
ore vs. reduce
oxygen vs. reduce
hydrogen vs. reduce
reduce vs. subdue
capture vs. reduce
humble vs. reduce
conquer vs. reduce
degrade vs. reduce
lower vs. reduce
impair vs. reduce
pare vs. reduce
reduce vs. slash
deduce vs. reduce
feather vs. reduce
defeat vs. reduce
decrease vs. reduce
ash vs. reduce
narrow vs. reduce
reduce vs. rise
reduce vs. sleep
cut vs. reduce
axe vs. reduce
lose vs. reduce
increase vs. reduce
reduce vs. slow
diminish vs. reduce
abbreviate vs. reduce
abate vs. reduce