Reduce

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