Meaning

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

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʁe.dɥiʁ/
Etymology

In summary

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

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