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reduce

verb
  1. take off weight
    thin
  2. lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
    thin
  3. narrow or limit
    “reduce the influx of foreigners”
    tighten
  4. cook until very little liquid is left
    “The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time”
    concentrate
  5. be cooked until very little liquid is left
    “The sauce should reduce to one cup”
    concentrate
  6. be the essential element
    come downboil down
  7. 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
    deoxidisedeoxidize
  8. make smaller
    “reduce an image”
    decrease
  9. reduce in size
    “reduce physically”
    shrink
  10. make less complex
    “reduce a problem to a single question”
  11. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
    contract
  12. cut down on
    cut
  13. destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
  14. reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
  15. undergo meiosis
    “The cells reduce”
  16. lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
    “They reduced their children to servants.”
  17. simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
  18. lessen and make more modest
    “reduce one's standard of living”
  19. bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
    “The dictator reduced the population to slavery in a matter of years.”
  20. put down by force or intimidation
    keep downsubduerepressquashsubjugate