reduced
Meaning
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simple past and past participle of reduce
Concepts
reduced
decreased
diminished
subside
diminish
shortened
decline
lessened
be depleted
consumed
dissipated
emptied
exhausted
spent
rock-bottom
decrease
grow less
become less
curtailed
cut down
humbled
tarnished
cheap
cut-price
low cost
low-priced
brought into
weakened
impaired
impoverished
subdued
subjugated
cut rate
reduction
come down
abate
die down
dwindle
fall
recede
flat
cut
get into
abbreviated
abridged
contracted
shrink
lowered
divided
allotted
let down
lower
fall off
slake
weaken
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɹɪˈdjuːst/
New
reduce
- To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- To lose weight.
- To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
- To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
- To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- To reform a line or column from (a square).
- To strike off the payroll.
- To annul by legal means.
- (obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).
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