Definitions For Reduce

verb

• Take off weight
• Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
• Narrow or limit
• Cook until very little liquid is left
• Be cooked until very little liquid is left
• Be the essential element
• 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
• Make smaller
• Reduce in size; reduce physically
• Make less complex
• Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
• Cut down on; make a reduction in
• Destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
• Reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
• Undergo meiosis
• Lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
• Simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
• Lessen and make more modest
• Bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
• Put down by force or intimidation
• To make (something) smaller in size, amount, number, etc.
• To cause (someone) to be in a specified state or condition
• To cause (something) to be in a specified form by breaking it, burning it, etc.