Reduce Meaning
There are 20 meaning(s) for word Reduce
Meaning 1 : cut down on; make a reduction in
Example : reduce your daily fat intake
Synonyms : bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, trim, trim back, trim down
Example : reduce your daily fat intake
Synonyms : bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, trim, trim back, trim down
Meaning 3 : be cooked until very little liquid is left
Example : The sauce should reduce to one cup
Synonyms : boil down, concentrate, decoct
Example : The sauce should reduce to one cup
Synonyms : boil down, concentrate, decoct
Meaning 4 : lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
Synonyms : cut, dilute, thin, thin out
Synonyms : cut, dilute, thin, thin out
Meaning 5 : reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
Synonyms : abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, shorten
Synonyms : abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, shorten
Meaning 6 : be the essential element
Synonyms : boil down, come down
Synonyms : boil down, come down
Meaning 7 : put down by force or intimidation
Synonyms : keep down, quash, repress, subdue, subjugate
Synonyms : keep down, quash, repress, subdue, subjugate
Meaning 8 : make smaller
Example : reduce an image
Synonyms : scale down
Example : reduce an image
Synonyms : scale down
Meaning 9 : 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
Synonyms : deoxidise, deoxidize
Synonyms : deoxidise, deoxidize
Meaning 11 : cook until very little liquid is left
Example : The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
Synonyms : boil down, concentrate
Example : The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
Synonyms : boil down, concentrate
Meaning 13 : bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
Example : He reduced the population to slavery
Example : He reduced the population to slavery
Meaning 14 : destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
Meaning 15 : lessen and make more modest
Example : reduce one's standard of living
Example : reduce one's standard of living
Meaning 16 : lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
Example : She reduced her niece to a servant
Example : She reduced her niece to a servant
Meaning 17 : make less complex
Example : reduce a problem to a single question
Example : reduce a problem to a single question
Meaning 18 : reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
Meaning 19 : simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
Meaning 20 : undergo meiosis
Example : The cells reduce
Example : The cells reduce
Reduce Antonyms
- gain
- blow up