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re·duce
(rĭ-do͞os′, -dyo͞os′)v. re·duced, re·duc·ing, re·duc·es
v.tr.
1. To bring down, as in extent, amount, or degree; diminish. See Synonyms at decrease.
2. To bring to a humbler, weaker, difficult, or forced state or condition; especially:
a. To gain control of; subject or conquer: "a design to reduce them under absolute despotism" (Declaration of Independence).
b. To subject to destruction: Enemy bombers reduced the city to rubble.
c. To bring to a specified undesirable state, as of weakness or helplessness: disease that reduced the patient to emaciation; teasing that reduced the child to tears.
d. To compel to desperate acts: The Depression reduced many to begging on street corners.
e. To lower in rank or grade; demote.
3. To thicken or intensify the flavor of (a sauce, for example) by slow boiling.
4. To lower the price of: The store has drastically reduced winter coats.
5. To decrease the viscosity of (paint, for example), as by adding a solvent.
6. To put in a simpler or more systematic form; simplify or codify: reduced her ideas to a collection of maxims.
7. To turn into powder; pulverize.
8. Chemistry
a. To decrease the valence of (an atom) by adding electrons.
b. To remove oxygen from (a compound).
c. To add hydrogen to (a compound).
d. To change to a metallic state by removing nonmetallic constituents; smelt.
9. Mathematics To simplify the form of (an expression, such as a fraction) without changing the value.
10. Medicine To restore (a fractured or displaced body part) to a normal condition or position.
11. Linguistics To pronounce (a stressed vowel) as the unstressed version of that vowel or as schwa.
v.intr.
1. To become diminished.
2. To lose weight, as by dieting.
3. Biology To undergo meiosis.
[Middle English reducen, to bring back, from Old French reducier, from Latin redūcere : re-, re- + dūcere, to lead; see deuk- in Indo-European roots.]
re·duc′er n.
re·duc′i·bil′i·ty n.
re·duc′i·ble adj.
re·duc′i·bly adv.
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reduce
(rɪˈdjuːs)vb (mainly tr)
1. (also intr) to make or become smaller in size, number, extent, degree, intensity, etc
2. to bring into a certain state, condition, etc: to reduce a forest to ashes; to reduce someone to despair.
3. (also intr) to make or become slimmer; lose or cause to lose excess weight
4. to impoverish (esp in the phrase in reduced circumstances)
5. to bring into a state of submission to one's authority; subjugate: the whole country was reduced after three months.
6. (Commerce) to bring down the price of (a commodity): the shirt was reduced in the sale.
7. to lower the rank or status of; demote: he was reduced from corporal to private; reduced to the ranks.
8. to set out systematically as an aid to understanding; simplify: his theories have been reduced in a popular treatise.
9. (Mathematics) maths to modify or simplify the form of (an expression or equation), esp by substitution of one term by another
10. (Cookery) cookery to make (a sauce, stock, etc) more concentrated by boiling away some of the water in it
11. to thin out (paint) by adding oil, turpentine, etc; dilute
12. (Chemistry) (also intr) chem
a. to undergo or cause to undergo a chemical reaction with hydrogen or formation of a hydride
b. to lose or cause to lose oxygen atoms
c. to undergo or cause to undergo an increase in the number of electrons. Compare oxidize
13. (Photography) photog to lessen the density of (a negative or print) by converting some of the blackened silver in the emulsion to soluble silver compounds by an oxidation process using a photographic reducer
14. (Surgery) surgery to manipulate or reposition (a broken or displaced bone, organ, or part) back to its normal site
15. (Biology) (also intr) biology to undergo or cause to undergo meiosis
[C14: from Latin redūcere to bring back, from re- + dūcere to lead]
reˈducible adj
reˌduciˈbility, reˈducibleness n
reˈducibly adv
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re•duce
(rɪˈdus, -ˈdyus)v. -duced, -duc•ing. v.t.
1. to bring down to a smaller size, amount, price, etc.
2. to lower in degree, intensity, etc.
3. to demote to a lower rank
4. to treat analytically, as a complex idea.
5. to act destructively upon (a substance or object): a house reduced to ashes.
6. to bring to a certain state: to reduce someone to tears.
7. to evaporate water from, as a sauce, by boiling.
8. to change the denomination or form, but not the value, of (a fraction, polynomial, etc.).
9.
a. to deoxidize.
b. to add hydrogen to.
c. to decrease the positive charge on (an ion) by adding electrons.
10. to convert (ore minerals) to a metallic state by driving off nonmetallic elements; smelt.
11. to thin or dilute: to reduce paint with turpentine.
12. to restore to the normal place, relation, or condition, as a fractured bone.
13. to pronounce (a vowel) as (ə) or another unstressed, centralized vowel.
v.i. 14. to become reduced.
15. to lose weight, as by dieting.
16. to be equal to or turned into something.
17. to undergo meiosis.
or authority.[1325–75; to lead back < Latin redūcere to lead back, bring back =re- re- + dūcere to lead]
re•duc′er, n.
re•duc•i•ble, adj.
re•duc`i•bil′i•ty, n.
re•duc′i•bly, adv.
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reduce
- diminish - A blend of diminue, "speak disparagingly," and minish, "reduce in amount, degree, influence, power."
- formulate - Can mean "reduce to a formula."
- moderate - Etymologically, it means "keep within due measure," and is derived from Latin moderari or moderare, "control, reduce."
- minimize - Means to reduce to an absolute minimum—not to play down or soften.
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reduce
Past participle: reduced
Gerund: reducing
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reduce
To concentrate a liquid by boiling it without a cover, causing water to evaporate.
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| Verb | 1. |  reduce - cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"shorten - make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness" spill - reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail) quench - reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance cut - have a reducing effect; "This cuts into my earnings" retrench - make a reduction, as in one's workforce; "The company had to retrench" slash - cut drastically; "Prices were slashed" thin out - make sparse; "thin out the young plants" thin - make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution" detract, take away - take away a part from; diminish; "His bad manners detract from his good character" deflate - reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency" inflate - increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency" downsize - reduce in size or number; "the company downsized its research staff" subtract - take off or away; "this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French" |
| 2. | reduce - make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question" abbreviate - shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'" simplify - make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent; "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives" | |
| 3. | reduce - bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery" demote, kick downstairs, relegate, bump, break - assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant" | |
| 4. | reduce - simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement interchange, substitute, replace, exchange - put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning" | |
| 5. | reduce - lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant" | |
| 6. | reduce - be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise" | |
| 7. | reduce - reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" scale down, reduce - make smaller; "reduce an image" reef - reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef miniaturise, miniaturize - design or construct on a smaller scale depopulate, desolate - reduce in population; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside" downsize - make in a smaller size; "the car makers downsized the SUVs when fuel became very expensive" contract - make smaller; "The heat contracted the woollen garment" | |
| 8. | reduce - lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living" impoverish - make poor | |
| 9. | reduce - make smaller; "reduce an image" | |
| 10. | 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 chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" benficiate - subject to a reduction process; "benficiate ores" pole - deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole | |
| 11. | reduce - narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners" | |
| 12. | 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" | |
| 13. | reduce - undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce" | |
| 14. | reduce - reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site reposition - place into another position | |
| 15. | reduce - destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it linguistics - the scientific study of language obscure - reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa | |
| 16. |  reduce - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, castrate, shorten - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" | |
| 17. | reduce - be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup" cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" | |
| 18. | reduce - cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time" cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" | |
| 19. | reduce - lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon" weaken - lessen the strength of; "The fever weakened his body" water down - make less strong or intense; "water down the mixture" | |
| 20. |  reduce - take off weight sweat off - lose weight by sweating; "I sweated off 3 pounds in the sauna" change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
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reduce
verb
1. lessen, cut, contract, lower, depress, moderate, weaken, diminish, turn down, decrease, slow down, cut down, shorten, dilute, impair, curtail, wind down, abate, tone down, debase, truncate, abridge, downsize Consumption is being reduced by 25 per cent.
lessen increase, extend, enhance, heighten, enlarge, augment
lessen increase, extend, enhance, heighten, enlarge, augment
in reduced circumstances impoverished, penniless, destitute, poverty-stricken, broke (informal), short, poor, ruined, bust (informal), in need, bankrupt, needy, badly off, on the rocks, hard up (informal), down and out, skint (Brit. slang), in want, indigent, down at heel, impecunious, dirt-poor (informal), on the breadline, flat broke (informal), penurious, on your uppers, stony-broke (Brit. slang), necessitous, in queer street, pauperized, without two pennies to rub together (informal), on your beam-ends living in reduced circumstances
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
reduce
verb1. To grow or cause to grow gradually less:
2. To make short or shorter the duration or extent of:
4. To become or make less in price or value:
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Translations
يُخَفِّضُيُخَفِّف الوَزنيَسْحَق، يوقِعُ في البُؤْسيُقَلِّل
přimětproměnitsnížitzhubnoutzmenšit
reduceretvingefå til at briste i grådforvandlenedsætte
taandama
vähentääalentaaalistaakukistaalaihtua
smanjiti
besűrítcsökkentlefogyleigázlever
grennastkoma/setja í slæmt ástandminnka, lækka
減らす減る煮詰める簡約約分
축소하다
galimas sumažintiprivestisuliesėti
novājētnovest līdzpārvērstpazeminātsamazināt
donútiť
shujšatizmanjšatiznižati
minska
ทำให้ลดลง
azaltmakhâle getirmek/sokmak/düşürmekzayıflamak
giảm
reduce
[rɪˈdjuːs]A. VT
1. (= decrease) [+ number, costs, expenditure, inflation] → reducir; [+ price] → rebajar (Ind) [+ output] → reducir, recortar; [+ speed, heat, visibility] → disminuir; [+ temperature] → bajar; [+ stress, tension] → reducir, disminuir; [+ pain] → aliviar
it reduces the risk of heart disease (by 20%) → disminuye el riesgo de enfermedades cardíacas (en un 20%)
"reduce speed now" → disminuya la velocidad
it reduces the risk of heart disease (by 20%) → disminuye el riesgo de enfermedades cardíacas (en un 20%)
"reduce speed now" → disminuya la velocidad
2. (= cut price of) [+ goods] → rebajar
4. (= bring to specified state) to reduce sb to despair → llevar a algn a la desesperación
to reduce sb to tears → hacer llorar a algn
to be reduced to penury → estar sumido en la miseria
to reduce sth to ashes/rubble → reducir algo a cenizas/escombros
to reduce sb to silence → hacer callar a algn
we were reduced to begging on the streets → nos vimos obligados a mendigar por las calles
see also minimum
to reduce sb to tears → hacer llorar a algn
to be reduced to penury → estar sumido en la miseria
to reduce sth to ashes/rubble → reducir algo a cenizas/escombros
to reduce sb to silence → hacer callar a algn
we were reduced to begging on the streets → nos vimos obligados a mendigar por las calles
see also minimum
5. (= capture, subjugate) → tomar, conquistar
7. (= simplify) → reducir
to reduce an argument to its simplest form → reducir un argumento a su esencia
to reduce an argument to its simplest form → reducir un argumento a su esencia
8. (Math) [+ equation, expression] → reducir
9. (Chem) → reducir
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
reduce
[rɪˈdjuːs] vt [amount, number, volume, costs, demand] → réduire; [+ risk, stress] → réduire; [+ level, scale, time, temperature, heat] → réduire; [+ emissions, pollution] → réduire
at a reduced price → à prix réduit
to reduce sth from ... to ...
The work-force was reduced from 13,000 to 7,500 → Les effectifs ont été réduits pour passer de 13000 à 7500 employés.
to reduce sth by 10% → réduire qch de 10%
"reduce speed now" → "ralentir"
at a reduced price → à prix réduit
to reduce sth from ... to ...
The work-force was reduced from 13,000 to 7,500 → Les effectifs ont été réduits pour passer de 13000 à 7500 employés.
to reduce sth by 10% → réduire qch de 10%
"reduce speed now" → "ralentir"
to be reduced to sth [person] → être réduit(e) à qch
They were reduced to extreme poverty → Ils ont été réduits à la misère.
to be reduced to doing sth → en être réduit(e) à faire qch
He was reduced to begging for a living → Il en a été réduit à mendier pour survivre.
to reduce sb to tears → faire pleurer qn
to reduce sb to silence → réduire qn au silence
They were reduced to extreme poverty → Ils ont été réduits à la misère.
to be reduced to doing sth → en être réduit(e) à faire qch
He was reduced to begging for a living → Il en a été réduit à mendier pour survivre.
to reduce sb to tears → faire pleurer qn
to reduce sb to silence → réduire qn au silence
to be reduced to sth [+ dust, pieces, ashes] → être réduit(e) en qch
All the buildings have been reduced to rubble
BUT Tous les bâtiments ont été complètement détruits.
All the buildings have been reduced to rubble
BUT Tous les bâtiments ont été complètement détruits.
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
reduce
vt
pressure, weight, swelling, risk, chances → verringern, reduzieren; speed → reduzieren, verlangsamen; authority → schwächen; (= lower) standards, temperatures → herabsetzen, reduzieren; prices → ermäßigen, herabsetzen, reduzieren; taxes, costs → senken; expenses, wages → kürzen; value → mindern; (= shorten) → verkürzen; (in size) width, staff, drawing, photo → verkleinern, reduzieren; scale of operations → einschränken; output → drosseln, reduzieren; (Cook) sauce → einkochen lassen; to reduce one’s weight → abnehmen; to reduce the strength of a solution → eine Lösung abschwächen; to reduce speed (Mot) → langsamer fahren; “reduce speed now” (Mot) → ˜ langsam; the facts may all be reduced to four main headings → die Tatsachen können alle auf vier Hauptpunkte reduziert werden; to be reducing (= losing weight) → eine Schlankheitskur machen
(in price) goods, item → heruntersetzen, herabsetzen
(= change the form of, Chem) → reduzieren; (Math) → zerlegen (→ to in +acc); to reduce something to a powder → etw pulverisieren; to reduce something to its parts → etw in seine Einzelteile zerlegen; to reduce something to a common denominator (Math, fig) → etw auf einen gemeinsamen Nenner bringen; to reduce an argument to a matter of principle → aus einem Argument eine Frage des Prinzips machen; it has been reduced to a mere … → es ist jetzt nur noch ein …; it has been reduced to nothing → es ist zu nichts zusammengeschmolzen; he’s reduced to a skeleton → er ist zum Skelett abgemagert; to reduce somebody to silence/despair/tears → jdn zum Schweigen/zur Verzweiflung/zum Weinen bringen; to reduce somebody to begging/to slavery → jdn zum Betteln/zur Sklaverei zwingen; are we reduced to this! → so weit ist es also gekommen!; to be reduced to submission → aufgeben müssen
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
reduce
[rɪˈdjuːs]1. vt
a. (gen) → ridurre; (prices, taxes) → abbassare, ridurre, diminuire; (speed, voltage, expenses) (Med) (swelling) → ridurre, diminuire; (temperature) → far diminuire, far scendere
to reduce sth by/to → ridurre qc di/a
"reduce speed now" (Aut) → "rallentare"
to reduce sth to ashes → ridurre qc in cenere
to reduce sb to silence/despair/tears → ridurre qn al silenzio/alla disperazione/in lacrime
we were reduced to begging → eravamo ridotti all'elemosina
reduced to nothing → ridotto/a a zero
to reduce sth by/to → ridurre qc di/a
"reduce speed now" (Aut) → "rallentare"
to reduce sth to ashes → ridurre qc in cenere
to reduce sb to silence/despair/tears → ridurre qn al silenzio/alla disperazione/in lacrime
we were reduced to begging → eravamo ridotti all'elemosina
reduced to nothing → ridotto/a a zero
b. (Mil) to reduce sb to the ranks → degradare qn a soldato semplice
2. vi (slim) → dimagrire
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
reduce
(rəˈdjuːs) verb1. to make less, smaller etc. The shop reduced its prices; The train reduced speed.
2. to lose weight by dieting. I must reduce to get into that dress.
3. to drive, or put, into a particular (bad) state. The bombs reduced the city to ruins; She was so angry, she was almost reduced to tears; During the famine, many people were reduced to eating grass and leaves.
reˈducible adjectivereˈduction (-ˈdak-) noun
The government promised a reduction in prices later; price reductions.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
reduce
→ يُخَفِّضُ zmenšit reducere reduzieren ελαττώνω reducir vähentää réduire smanjiti ridurre 減らす 축소하다 verminderen redusere zmniejszyć reduzir сокращать minska ทำให้ลดลง azaltmak giảm 减少Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
re·duce
v. reducir, rebajar; disminuir.
1. restaurar a la situación normal, tal como un hueso fracturado o dislocado;
2. disminuir la potencia al dar hidrógeno o quitarle oxígeno a un compuesto;
3. bajar de peso.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
reduce
vt reducir, disminuir, bajar; (ortho) reducir; vi (fam, to lose weight) bajar de pesoEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.