- verbreduce (verb) · reduces (third person present) · reduced (past tense) · reduced (past participle) · reducing (present participle)
- make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:"the need for businesses to reduce costs" · "the workforce has been reduced to some 6,100" · "a reduced risk of coronary disease"
- become smaller or less in size, amount, or degree:"the number of priority homeless cases has reduced slightly"
- boil (a sauce or other liquid) in cooking so that it becomes thicker and more concentrated:"increase the heat and reduce the liquid"
- NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH(of a person) lose weight, typically by dieting:"by May she had reduced to 125 pounds"
- photographymake (a negative or print) less dense.
- phoneticsarticulate (a speech sound) in a way requiring less muscular effort. In vowels, this gives rise to a more central articulatory position.
- (reduce someone/something to)bring someone or something to (a lower or weaker state, condition, or role):"she has been reduced to near poverty" · "the church was reduced to rubble"
- (be reduced to doing something)(of a person) be forced by difficult circumstances into doing something desperate:"ordinary soldiers are reduced to begging"
- make someone helpless with (an expression of emotion, especially with hurt, shock, or amusement):"Olga was reduced to stunned silence"
- force someone into (obedience or submission):"he succeeds in reducing his grandees to due obedience"
- (reduce something to)change a substance to (a different or more basic form):"it is difficult to understand how lava could have been reduced to dust"
- present a problem or subject in (a simplified form):"he reduces unimaginable statistics to manageable proportions"
- convert a fraction to (the form with the lowest terms).
- chemistrycause to combine chemically with hydrogen:"hydrogen for reducing the carbon dioxide"
- undergo or cause to undergo a reaction in which electrons are gained by one atom from another. The opposite of oxidize."this compound reduces to potassium chloride" · "the arsenic is reduced to the trivalent condition"
- restore (a dislocated part) to its proper position by manipulation or surgery:"Joe's reducing a dislocated thumb"
- archaicbesiege and capture (a town or fortress).
Originlate Middle English: from Latin reducere, from re- ‘back, again’ + ducere ‘bring, lead’. The original sense was ‘bring back’ (hence ‘restore’, now surviving in reduce); this led to ‘bring to a different state’, then ‘bring to a simpler or lower state’ (hence reduce); and finally ‘diminish in size or amount’ (reduce, dating from the late 18th century).Similar and Opposite Wordsverb- make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:
- bring someone or something to (a lower or weaker state, condition, or role):
- force someone into (obedience or submission):
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