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"reduce your daily fat intake"verbcut down on; make a reduction in
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verbtake off weight
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"The sauce should reduce to one cup"verbbe cooked until very little liquid is left
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verblessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixturetype of:
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verbreduce in scope while retaining essential elements
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verbbe the essential element
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verbput down by force or intimidation
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"reduce an image"verbmake smaller
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verbto remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electronstype of:
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"reduce the influx of foreigners"verbnarrow or limit
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"The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"verbcook until very little liquid is left
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verbreduce in size; reduce physically
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"He reduced the population to slavery"verbbring to humbler or weaker state or conditiontype of:
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verbdestress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing ittype of:
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"reduce one's standard of living"verblessen and make more modesttype of:
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"She reduced her niece to a servant"verblower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
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"reduce a problem to a single question"verbmake less complextype of:
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verbreposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal sitetype of:
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verbsimplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for anothertype of:
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"The cells reduce"verbundergo meiosis
Definition that contains reduce
- run reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- cut reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- break reduce to bankruptcy
- draw reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die
- contract reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- ruin reduce to bankruptcy
- ruin reduce to ruins
- crack reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
- basic reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
- smash reduce to bankruptcy