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reduce
English
- 🔊 take off weight
- 🔊 narrow or limit“reduce the influx of foreigners”
- 🔊 cook until very little liquid is left“The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time”
- 🔊 be the essential element“The proposal boils down to a compromise”
- 🔊 make smaller“reduce an image”
- 🔊 make less complex“reduce a problem to a single question”
- 🔊 cut down on“reduce your daily fat intake”
- 🔊 destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- 🔊 reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- 🔊 undergo meiosis“The cells reduce”
- 🔊 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
- 🔊 lessen and make more modest“reduce one's standard of living”
- 🔊 bring to humbler or weaker state or condition“He reduced the population to slavery”
- 🔊 be cooked until very little liquid is left“The sauce should reduce to one cup”
- 🔊 reduce in size“Hot water will shrink the sweater”
- 🔊 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
- 🔊 lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture“cut bourbon”
- 🔊 put down by force or intimidation“The government quashes any attempt of an uprising”
- 🔊 reduce in scope while retaining essential elements“The manuscript must be shortened”
Spanish
- 🔊 decrementar to reduce
- 🔊 mermar to reduce
- 🔊 rebajar to reduce
- 🔊 empequeñecer to reduce, shrink
- 🔊 recortar to reduce, to cut, to cut back on
- 🔊 reducir to reduce, to lower, to cut, to scale back
- 🔊 jibarizar to reduce, to diminish, to shrink, to lessen