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reduce- (verb)
- To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
- to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
- To lose weight.
- To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
- An ancient but reduced family. --Sir W. Scott.
- Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. --Tillotson.
- Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears. --Milton.
- Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. --Hawthorne.
- To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- to reduce a province or a fort
- To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- to reduce a city to ashes
- To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
- To add electrons to or remove hydrogen.
- To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
