Synonyms: reduce, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin, melt off, lose weight
Definition: take off weight
Similar words: turn, change state
Definition: undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
Usage: We turned from Socialism to Capitalism; The people turned against the President when he stole the election
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: restrain, restrict, confine, bound, limit, trammel, throttle
Definition: place limits on (extent or access)
Usage: restrict the use of this parking lot; limit the time you can spend with your friends
Synonyms: 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
Synonyms: concentrate, decoct, boil down, reduce
Definition: be cooked until very little liquid is left
Usage: The sauce should reduce to one cup
Similar words: fall, lessen, diminish, decrease
Definition: decrease in size, extent, or range
Usage: 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
Synonyms: reduce, boil down, come down
Definition: be the essential element
Usage: The proposal boils down to a compromise
Definition: undergo a change or development
Usage: The water turned into ice; Her former friend became her worst enemy; He turned traitor
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: change
Definition: undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
Usage: She changed completely as she grew older; The weather changed last night
Synonyms: 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?
Definition: reduce in size; reduce physically
Usage: Hot water will shrink the sweater; Can you shrink this image?
Synonyms: reduce
Definition: make less complex
Usage: reduce a problem to a single question
Similar words: simplify
Definition: make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent
Usage: We had to simplify the instructions; this move will simplify our lives
Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, foreshorten, shorten
Definition: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
Usage: The manuscript must be shortened
Synonyms: 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
Synonyms: reduce
Definition: destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
Similar words: de-emphasise, de-emphasize, destress
Definition: reduce the emphasis
Synonyms: reduce
Definition: reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
Similar words: reposition
Definition: place into another position
Synonyms: reduce
Definition: undergo meiosis
Usage: The cells reduce
Similar words: divide, separate, part
Definition: come apart
Usage: The two pieces that we had glued separated
Synonyms: reduce
Definition: lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
Usage: She reduced her niece to a servant
Similar words: put down, take down, degrade, demean, disgrace
Definition: reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
Usage: She tends to put down younger women colleagues; His critics took him down after the lecture
Synonyms: reduce
Definition: simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
Similar words: exchange, replace, interchange, substitute
Definition: put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
Usage: the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt; substitute regular milk with fat-free milk; synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning
Synonyms: reduce
Definition: lessen and make more modest
Usage: reduce one's standard of living
Similar words: impoverish
Definition: make poor
Synonyms: reduce
Definition: bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
Usage: He reduced the population to slavery
Similar words: demote, kick downstairs, relegate, break, bump
Definition: assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
Usage: She was demoted because she always speaks up; He was broken down to Sergeant
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: crush, suppress, oppress
Definition: come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
Usage: The government oppresses political activists