reducir

Meaning

1. to reduce, to lower, to cut, to scale back
2. to narrow, to narrow down (e.g. suspects, a search, a gap, choices)
3. to whittle
4. to curtail (restrict)

Hyphenated as

re‧du‧cir

Pronounced as (IPA)

/reduˈθiɾ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin redūcere (“reduce”).