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US
/ɹəˈdus, ɹiˈdus, ɹɪˈdus/
]
[ UK /ɹɪdjˈuːs/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪdjˈuːs/ ]
VERB
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cook until very little liquid is left
The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time -
make smaller
reduce an image -
reduce in size; reduce physically
Hot water will shrink the sweater
Can you shrink this image? -
be cooked until very little liquid is left
The sauce should reduce to one cup -
lessen and make more modest
reduce one's standard of living -
undergo meiosis
The cells reduce -
bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
He reduced the population to slavery -
make less complex
reduce a problem to a single question -
lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
cut bourbon -
narrow or limit
reduce the influx of foreigners - destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
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cut down on; make a reduction in
reduce your daily fat intake
The employer wants to cut back health benefits - take off weight
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reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
The manuscript must be shortened - 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
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lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
She reduced her niece to a servant - simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
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be the essential element
The proposal boils down to a compromise -
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
How To Use reduce In A Sentence
- Our goal is to reduce the excess downforce to a point where we do create a little separation.
- If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
- Food sharing with nonkin reduces the costs to kin of child rearing, but also reduces the resources recaptured by kin after an infant death, so evolved infant mortality is lower. Archive 2008-06-01
- To reduce the wing trim drag, the fuselage was fitted with lateral surfaces called chines, which actually converted the forward fuselage into a fixed canard which developed lift.
- This regime should have been more than adequate to demonstrate any significant short-term effects of reduced sleep.
- A reduced short chain fatty acid concentration has also been reported in pouch contents from patients with pouchitis compared with those without.
- Some houses were reduced to neat rectangles of foot-high rubble.
- High-quality sprinkler systems and new fireproof roofing materials, for example, can reduce the chance of fire.
- they were reduced to mendicancy
- Such an approach not only allows the authors to discuss the work from many different angles, but allows them to do so without implying that the practical quandaries in The Angel of History can be reduced to a simple meaning.
