Main entry: reduce, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin, melt off, lose weight
Definition: take off weight
Main entry: dilute, cut, reduce, thin, thin out
Definition: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
Usage: cut bourbon
Definition: narrow or limit
Usage: reduce the influx of foreigners
Main entry: reduce, boil down, concentrate
Definition: cook until very little liquid is left
Usage: The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
Main entry: concentrate, decoct, boil down, reduce
Definition: be cooked until very little liquid is left
Usage: The sauce should reduce to one cup
Main entry: reduce, boil down, come down
Definition: be the essential element
Usage: The proposal boils down to a compromise
Main entry: reduce, deoxidise, deoxidize
Definition: 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
Main entry: reduce, scale down
Definition: make smaller
Usage: reduce an image
Definition: reduce in size; reduce physically
Usage: Hot water will shrink the sweater; Can you shrink this image?
Main entry: reduce
Definition: make less complex
Usage: reduce a problem to a single question
Main entry: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, foreshorten, shorten
Definition: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
Usage: The manuscript must be shortened
Main entry: cut, cut back, cut down, bring down, trim, trim back, trim down, reduce
Definition: cut down on; make a reduction in
Usage: reduce your daily fat intake; The employer wants to cut back health benefits
Main entry: reduce
Definition: destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
Main entry: reduce
Definition: reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
Main entry: reduce
Definition: undergo meiosis
Usage: The cells reduce
Main entry: reduce
Definition: lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
Usage: She reduced her niece to a servant
Main entry: reduce
Definition: simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
Main entry: reduce
Definition: lessen and make more modest
Usage: reduce one's standard of living
Main entry: reduce
Definition: bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
Usage: He reduced the population to slavery
Main entry: subdue, subjugate, quash, reduce, repress, keep down
Definition: put down by force or intimidation
Usage: The government quashes any attempt of an uprising; China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently; The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land