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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Definitions reduce verb (reduces, reducing, reduced) (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair. to weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc. (intransitive) To lose weight. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote. to 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 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. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture. to a province or a fort (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition. to a city to ashes (context, transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off. (context, transitive, chemistry) To add electrons to or remove hydrogen. (context, transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter. (context, transitive, math) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value. Etymology: (term, reducere, lang=la), (term, reductum, lang=la); prefix (term, red-, lang=la). From (term, re-, lang=la) + (term, ducere, , to lead, lang=la). See (term, duke), and compare with (term, redoubt).      Full Definition of reduce  Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 51015202550 results per page. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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