réduire

Meaning

1. to reduce
2. to cut (prices); to shorten (text); to reduce, scale down (pictures, etc.)
3. to reduce (someone)
4. to reduce (something)
5. to reduce, set
6. to reduce
7. to capture (a place), to quell (opposition etc.)
8. to amount to, to come down to

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʁe.dɥiʁ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French reduire, from Old French reduire, an alteration or Gallicization of Latin redūcere (“reduce”), after conduire.

Sentences

Il doit réduire ses activités professionnelles , car il souffre d'emphysème.

He must reduce his professional activities, because he suffers from emphysema.

Les efforts pour réduire ce drainage minier acide ont été encouragés par l' .

Efforts to reduce this acid mine drainage have been encouraged by the.

On ne réglerait qu’un problème budgétaire en apportant une solution pour réduire le déficit .

We would only solve a budgetary problem by providing a solution to reduce the deficit.