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reduce - cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" |
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trim,
cut |
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decrease,
lessen,
minify decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
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shorten become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten"
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spill reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)
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quench cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel"
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cut grow through the gums; "The new tooth is cutting"
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retrench make a reduction, as in one's workforce; "The company had to retrench"
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slash cut drastically; "Prices were slashed"
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thin out make sparse; "thin out the young plants"
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thin make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution"
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detract,
take away take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables"
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deflate become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated"
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inflate fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons"
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downsize reduce in size or number; "the company downsized its research staff"
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subtract take off or away; "this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French"
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knock off,
shave remove body hair with a razor
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reduce - cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time" |
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concentrate |
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decrease,
lessen,
minify decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
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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"
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reduce - take off weight |
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slim,
slenderize,
thin |
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gain,
put on increase (one's body weight); "She gained 20 pounds when she stopped exercising"
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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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sweat off lose weight by sweating; "I sweated off 3 pounds in the sauna"
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reduce - make smaller; "reduce an image" |
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blow up,
enlarge,
magnify make large; "blow up an image"
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reduce,
shrink take off weight
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reduce - make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question" |
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simplify make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent; "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives"
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abbreviate shorten; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'"
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reduce - destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it |
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de-emphasise,
de-emphasize,
destress reduce the emphasis
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linguistics the humanistic study of language and literature
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obscure make obscure or unclear; "The distinction was obscured"
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reduce - simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another |
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exchange,
interchange,
replace,
substitute give to, and receive from, one another; "Would you change places with me?"; "We have been exchanging letters for a year"
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math,
mathematics,
maths a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
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reduce - be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise" |
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become,
turn enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!"
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reduce - narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners" |
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tighten |
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bound,
confine,
limit,
restrain,
restrict,
throttle,
trammel form the boundary of; be contiguous to
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reduce - reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site |
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reposition place into another position
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reduce - undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce" |
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divide,
part,
separate perform a division; "Can you divide 49 by seven?"
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reduce - lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant" |
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degrade,
demean,
disgrace,
put down,
take down lower the grade of something; reduce its worth
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reduce - lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living" |
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impoverish make poor
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reduce - bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery" |
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break,
bump,
demote,
kick downstairs,
relegate weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death"
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