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Meaning reduce meaning

What does reduce mean?
Definitions in simple English

reduce Verb

— If something is reduced, it has been brought down or made smaller. The new computer system should reduce the number of problems. This image is too large, could you please reduce the size? Eating well will reduce the risk of heart disease. Our time in the country was reduced to just a few days. Taxes have been reduced by 24 percent. — If you reduce a liquid, you boil it to make it thicker.

reduce

— verb (= cut down, cut back, cut) cut down on; make a reduction in reduce your daily fat intake The employer wants to cut back health benefits — verb make less complex reduce a problem to a single question — verb bring to humbler or weaker state or condition He reduced the population to slavery — verb simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another — verb lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation She reduced her niece to a servant — verb (= boil down) be the essential element The proposal boils down to a compromise — verb (= shrink) reduce in size; reduce physically Hot water will shrink the sweater Can you shrink this image? — verb make smaller reduce an image — verb narrow or limit reduce the influx of foreigners — verb lessen and make more modest reduce one's standard of living — verb (= deoxidize) 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 — verb cook until very little liquid is left The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time — verb take off weight — verb undergo meiosis The cells reduce — verb reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site — verb destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it — verb be cooked until very little liquid is left The sauce should reduce to one cup — verb (= cut) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture cut bourbon — verb (= quash, keep down, subjugate) put down by force or intimidation The government quashes any attempt of an uprising China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land — verb (= shorten) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements The manuscript must be shortened

Synonyms reduce synonyms

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reduce English » English

decrease diminish lessen lower shorten cut shrink abate contract curtail cut down abridge bring down decline weaken minimize make smaller boil down thin subdue scale down lose weight trim slacken retrench mitigate ease alleviate abbreviate transform subside moderate make less limit drop discount convert concentrate allay tighten subtract subjugate slim restrict modify make small loosen go down draw in downsize

Topics reduce topics

What do people use reduce to talk about?
States Quantity More

Decrease
Social behavior Conflict War

Defeat
States Big

Small
Grammar Very Degree

To a smaller degree
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Swell
Person Healthy

Treat disease
Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Cry, tear
Social behavior Authority Status

Low status
Social behavior Law Punish

Pardon, release
Daily life Fire

Burn
Physical actions Move Manner of movement Move quickly

Move slowly

Conjugation reduce conjugation

How do you conjugate reduce?

reduce · verb

Examples reduce examples

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Simple sentences

We have considered your proposal, and we have decided that we are not able to reduce the price.
I have to reduce my expenses this month.
We've considered your proposal, and we've decided that we aren't able to reduce the price.
One way Germany hopes to reduce its carbon footprint - and appease the young climate activists - is by rolling out new and innovative trains.
We have to reduce the cost to a minimum.
Could you reduce the price a little?
Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the cost.
When you rely on the team too much, it may reduce your individual competitive instincts.
I do not fear terrorists but those who want to make us fear terrorists to be able to reduce our freedom.
Can you please reduce the volume of the music?
President Arthur wanted to reduce the tariffs.
The doctor told Tom to reduce his red meat consumption.
For years I have been struggling to reduce the sloppiness in our office to a tolerable minimum.
We must reduce energy demand.
The opposition party put forward a bill to reduce income tax.
He was able to reduce taxes.
Sperm banks perform screenings on the donors to reduce the chance of their passing on genetic and infectious diseases.
I think we should reduce the price.
Electric power companies are seeking to reduce their use of coal.

Movie subtitles

That's very good. Okay, I need to reduce this hip.
You must reduce expenses.
Reduce taxes! Our national debt is something shocking!
This he would extract, reduce, distill, as it were down to it's purest essence.
Which to reduce into her former favour you are assembled.
In less than half an hour I will be able to reduce your mission and everyone in it to dust.
All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.
If I am not back aboard the Lydia within one hour she'll train her guns upon your fort and reduce it to rubble.
But the wind is increasing. I was about to reduce sail.
There are several ways to reduce landing speed.
Reduce, correlate, eliminate error!
They have been made immune through the anti-biotic serum, which I believe is the same as our formula X-Z-A. Reduce their counterpart!
If I charm him, perhaps he'll reduce his fee!
Certainly we'll also have to reduce our factory output to accommodate for it.
We averaged three, five or ten of these in order to reduce the noise and amplify the signal.
Take your last breaths before your destruction. I'm going to reduce this place to a barren wasteland.
I'll reduce your rent, however.
I'm trying to reduce it to a definite charge. That's what I was afraid of, Your Honor.
Tell him he can kick in those 15 acres reduce the price or find another sucker.
I was about to reduce sail.
What a way to reduce.
They want to reduce India to chaos and anarchy so that they can take over.
If we cannot produce enough food, we must reduce our population as it is inscribed on the sacred stones.
I managed to reduce the critical mass of a chain reaction, that's all.
Okay, I need to reduce this hip.
Well, you could go to Carlsbad afterward and reduce.
Which to reduce into our former favour, you are assembled.
I can reduce you to patrolman, send you down to Five Corners.
But we only know of one way to reduce the agony. operate quickly.
And if the patrol is successful, I'll send in a company, reduce the beach defenses, and land a battalion.
Crassus does seem to dwindle in the mind, but. Let's reduce him still further. A round million!
I'll reduce their hours.
Reduce the Earth to molten slag, then sell it.
To what shame love can reduce a man!
If he did it himself, he would reduce the voltage of the sun.

News and current affairs

Growth is, in the first place, the best way to reduce the country's budget deficits.
Only then will America improve its competitiveness enough to allow the government to reduce both private and public debt to sustainable levels while maintaining a respectable growth rate.
It is also difficult to grasp why China is so reluctant to reduce its bilateral surplus, given meager returns on its massive holdings of US government securities and a sustained risk of large capital losses in the future.
A well-designed fund would slow or stop deforestation, preserve biodiversity, and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide the burning of cleared forests.
In advanced countries, governments will eventually be forced to reduce spending, and central banks will withdraw from emergency credit provisions and guarantees.
This party will be centralized under personal leadership and will reduce the state to a legal fiction.
Indeed, when a president volunteers to reduce the powers of his own office, you can be certain that he is up to no good.
The British government recently issued the most comprehensive study to date of the economic costs and risks of global warming, and of measures that might reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in the hope of averting some of the direst consequences.
Some companies even seem to celebrate the melting of the polar ice cap, because it will reduce the cost of extracting the oil that lies beneath the Arctic Ocean.
The good news is that there are many ways by which improved incentives could reduce emissions - partly by eliminating the myriad of subsidies for inefficient usages.
A deeper and more efficient financial sector would also reduce transaction costs and facilitate risk management.
There has been a huge amount of research into the ways that humans cause climate change, and how we can reduce it.
And global warming's impact would reduce energy consumption for almost all nations.
Salaries are being slashed and public employees sacked to reduce new borrowing to a tolerable level.
Faith in Keynesian stimulus diminished, though high inflation did reduce public-debt levels.
But deficit spending by governments continued apace, and public debt as a share of GDP in industrial countries climbed steadily from the late 1970's, this time without inflation to reduce its real value.
Accounting for a reduction of 50 Mt of CO2 per year, America's 30,000 wind turbines reduce emissions by just one-tenth the amount that natural gas does.
Helping to make societies in the Middle East and elsewhere more democratic might reduce the alienation that can lead to radicalism and worse, but this is easier said than done.
In Liberia, the main push is to reduce imports of staples such as rice and tomatoes.
This may help to increase the foreign investment and reduce the capital flights.
And lower profitability will reduce pay more effectively than any direct regulatory controls.

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