reduce

Verb
  1. Cut down on;
    Make a reduction in (synset 200430013)
    "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
    is a type of: decrease, lessen, minify - make smaller
    subtypes:
    • shorten - make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
    • spill - reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)
    • quench - reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
    • retrench - make a reduction, as in one's workforce
    • slash - cut drastically
    • thin out - make sparse
    • thin - make thin or thinner
    • detract, take away - take away a part from; diminish
    • deflate - reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices
    • inflate - increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
    • downsize - (of a company) reduce in size or number of employees
    • subtract - take off or away
    • knock off, shave - cut the price of
    same as: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, trim, trim back, trim down
    verb group: cut - have a reducing effect
  2. Make less complex (synset 200243282)
    "reduce a problem to a single question"
    is a type of: simplify - make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent
    subtypes: abbreviate - shorten
  3. Bring to humbler or weaker state or condition (synset 202405030)
    "He reduced the population to slavery"
    is a type of: break, bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate - assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
  4. Simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another (synset 202263098)
    referred to in: math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
    is a type of: exchange, interchange, replace, substitute - put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
  5. Lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation (synset 201804889)
    "She reduced her niece to a servant"
    is a type of: degrade, demean, disgrace, put down, take down - reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
  6. Be the essential element (synset 200238590)
    "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
    is a type of: become, turn - undergo a change or development
    same as: boil down, come down
  7. Reduce in size;
    Reduce physically (synset 200241924)
    "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
    causes: contract, shrink - become smaller or draw together
    is a type of: decrease, lessen, minify - make smaller
    subtypes:
    same as: shrink
  8. Lessen and make more modest (synset 202322816)
    "reduce one's standard of living"
    is a type of: impoverish - make poor
  9. Make smaller (synset 200241017)
    "reduce an image"
    is a type of: reduce, shrink - reduce in size; reduce physically
    same as: scale down
  10. To remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons (synset 200238763)
    referred to in: chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions
    is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
    subtypes:
    • benficiate - subject to a reduction process
    • pole - deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole
    same as: deoxidise, deoxidize
  11. Narrow or limit (synset 200233575)
    "reduce the influx of foreigners"
    is a type of: bound, confine, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel - place limits on (extent or amount or access)
    same as: tighten
  12. Put down by force or intimidation (synset 202428975)
    "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
    is a type of: crush, oppress, suppress - come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
    same as: keep down, quash, repress, subdue, subjugate
  13. Undergo meiosis (synset 201561364)
    "The cells reduce"
    is a type of: divide, part, separate - come apart
  14. Reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site (synset 201501776)
    is a type of: reposition - place into another position
  15. Destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it (synset 200588693)
    referred to in: linguistics - the scientific study of language
    is a type of: de-emphasise, de-emphasize, destress - reduce the emphasis
    subtypes: obscure - reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa
  16. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements (synset 200244786)
    "The manuscript must be shortened"
    is a type of: decrease, lessen, minify - make smaller
    subtypes:
    same as: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, shorten
    verb group: cut, edit, edit out - cut and assemble the components of
  17. Be cooked until very little liquid is left (synset 200238145)
    "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
    referred to in: cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
    is a type of: decrease, diminish, fall, lessen - decrease in size, extent, or range
    same as: boil down, concentrate, decoct
  18. Cook until very little liquid is left (synset 200237885)
    "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
    referred to in: cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
    is a type of: decrease, lessen, minify - make smaller
    same as: boil down, concentrate
  19. Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture (synset 200226497)
    "cut bourbon"
    is a type of: weaken - lessen the strength of
    subtypes: water down - make less strong or intense
    same as: cut, dilute, thin, thin out
  20. Take off weight (synset 200045548)
    is a type of: change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
    subtypes: sweat off - lose weight by sweating
    same as: melt off, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin

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