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US
/ɹəˈdust, ɹiˈdust, ɹɪˈdust/
]
[ UK /ɹɪdjˈuːst/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪdjˈuːst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- made less in size or amount or degree
- well below normal (especially in price)
How To Use reduced In A Sentence
- In the toad and in the dog, adrenalectomy diminishes but does not suppress the diabetogenic effect of the anterior lobe extract, which can be obtained in adrenalectomized dogs, in which the pancreas has been surgically reduced, and which are kept alive by treatment with desoxycorticosterone and salt or even with sodium chloride alone. Bernardo Houssay - Nobel Lecture
- 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.
- 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.
- It has been reduced to something of a laughing stock. Times, Sunday Times
- Bigger discounts on equity and debt issuance to get them away risks seeing investment cut, borrowing reduced and jobs lost. Times, Sunday Times
- The Education Department has stipulated in writing that the burden on students must be reduced.
- It may seem a paradox that the same colour should be at once so durable and so fugitive, but we may briefly explain it by saying _when vitreous pigments are reduced to that extreme state of division which the palette requires, they lose the properties they possess in a less finely divided state_. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists