reduce

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I reduced it two times more by $1, and each time they beat my price by a cent or two.

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Quick take

cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of reduce gathered in one view.

verb

cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"

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make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"

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bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for reduce.

verb

cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"

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make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"

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bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"

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simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another

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lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"

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be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"

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reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"

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lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"

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make smaller; "reduce an image"

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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

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narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"

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put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"

See also: repress, quash, subdue, subjugate

verb

undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"

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reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site

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destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it

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reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"

See also: abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract

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be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"

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cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"

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lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"

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take off weight

Example sentences

I reduced it two times more by $1, and each time they beat my price by a cent or two.

But it does reduce risk and improve the likelihood of deal close once you get to that point.

Clock bending adjusts the display clock frequencies to reduce screen flicker.

I want to reduce my coding time and instead help people get their ideas to market using my resources.

For example, apply it only to the top page at first, and reduce the number of endorsements required for display to 1.

So what I did was reduce my price by a few dollars every hour for one day until everybody was priced under $5.

In fact, Cloudflare have written some software which they claim enables them to reduce their bandwidth, and this software happens to be written in Go.

Legalize it and then spend money and make laws regulating consumption, it would greatly reduce the misery in our corner of the world.

The closer reality is that if the idea has 'legs' then you can expect a series A round that will reduce both of you to 33% and then a series B which takes you to 20% to 25%.

There are at least 3 NGOs who have successfully managed to reduce AIDs and help the children of prostitutes rehabilitate in better professions.

What the hell I consider driving a car to work to be hardly justifiable at all in our trade, but a 31 year old fire truck is sending a giant fuck you to anyone else trying to reduce their carbon emissions.

Similar to employee reward schemes that employees learn to manipulate in a way that is detrimental to the business or cobra bounties intended to reduce the number of snakes in a city leading to backyard cobra farms.