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Verb reduce has 19 senses

reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down - cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
--₁ is one way to decrease, lessen, minify

Derived form: noun reduction₁
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reduce - make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
--₂ is one way to simplify

Derived form: noun reduction₃
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reduce - bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
--₃ is one way to demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs
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reduce - simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
--₄ is one way to substitute, replace
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reduce - lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"
--₅ is one way to take down, degrade, disgrace, demean, put down
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reduce, come down, boil down - be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
--₆ is one way to become, turn
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shrink, reduce - reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
--₇ is one way to decrease, lessen, minify

Derived form: noun reduction₁
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reduce - lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"
--₈ is one way to impoverish
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reduce, scale down - make smaller; "reduce an image"
--₉ is one way to shrink, reduce
Antonyms: blow up, enlarge, magnify

Derived form: noun reduction₁
Sample sentence:
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deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce - 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
--₁₀ is one way to change

Derived forms: noun reducer₁, noun reductant₁, noun reducing₁
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reduce, tighten - narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"
--₁₁ is one way to restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle
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repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce - 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"
--₁₂ is one way to oppress, suppress, crush
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reduce - undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"
--₁₃ is one way to separate, divide, part
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reduce - reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
--₁₄ is one way to reposition
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abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
--₁₅ is one way to decrease, lessen, minify
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boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrate - be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
--₁₆ is one way to decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
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reduce, boil down, concentrate - cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
--₁₇ is one way to decrease, lessen, minify
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dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut - lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
--₁₈ is one way to weaken
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reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down - take off weight
--₁₉ is one way to change state, turn
Antonyms: gain, put on

Derived form: noun reducing₂
Sample sentence:
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