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REDUCE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they reduce ... he / she / it reduces
Past simple: reduced
-ing form: reducing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Synonyms:
melt off; reduce; slenderize; slim; slim down; thin
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reduce"):
sweat off (lose weight by sweating)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
gain (increase (one's body weight))
Derivation:
reducing (loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
Example:
cut bourbon
Synonyms:
cut; dilute; reduce; thin; thin out
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
weaken (lessen the strength of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reduce"):
water down (make less strong or intense)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Example:
reduce the influx of foreigners
Synonyms:
reduce; tighten
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
bound; confine; limit; restrict; throttle; trammel (place limits on (extent or amount or access))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Cook until very little liquid is left
Example:
The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
Synonyms:
boil down; concentrate; reduce
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
decrease; lessen; minify (make smaller)
Domain category:
cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Be cooked until very little liquid is left
Example:
The sauce should reduce to one cup
Synonyms:
boil down; concentrate; decoct; reduce
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
decrease; diminish; fall; lessen (decrease in size, extent, or range)
Domain category:
cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 6
Meaning:
Example:
The proposal boils down to a compromise
Synonyms:
boil down; come down; reduce
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
become; turn (undergo a change or development)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Derivation:
reducible (capable of being reduced)
Sense 7
Meaning:
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:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reduce"):
benficiate (subject to a reduction process)
pole (deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
reducer (a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver)
reducing (any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent)
reductant (a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Example:
reduce an image
Synonyms:
reduce; scale down
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
reduce; shrink (reduce in size; reduce physically)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
blow up (make large)
Derivation:
reducible (capable of being reduced)
reduction (the act of decreasing or reducing something)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Reduce in size; reduce physically
Example:
Can you shrink this image?
Synonyms:
reduce; shrink
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
decrease; lessen; minify (make smaller)
Cause:
contract; shrink (become smaller or draw together)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reduce"):
contract (make smaller)
downsize (design or manufacture in a smaller size)
depopulate; desolate (reduce in population)
miniaturise; miniaturize (design or construct on a smaller scale)
reef (reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef)
reduce; scale down (make smaller)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
reduction (the act of decreasing or reducing something)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Example:
reduce a problem to a single question
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
simplify (make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reduce"):
abbreviate (shorten)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
reducible (capable of being reduced)
reduction (the act of reducing complexity)
Sense 11
Meaning:
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
Example:
The manuscript must be shortened
Synonyms:
abbreviate; abridge; contract; cut; foreshorten; reduce; shorten
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
decrease; lessen; minify (make smaller)
Verb group:
cut; edit; edit out (cut and assemble the components of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reduce"):
bowdlerise; bowdlerize; castrate; expurgate; shorten (edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate)
concentrate; condense; digest (make more concise)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 12
Meaning:
Cut down on; make a reduction in
Example:
The employer wants to cut back health benefits
Synonyms:
bring down; cut; cut back; cut down; reduce; trim; trim back; trim down
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
decrease; lessen; minify (make smaller)
Verb group:
cut (have a reducing effect)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reduce"):
knock off; shave (cut the price of)
subtract (take off or away)
downsize ((of a company) reduce in size or number of employees)
inflate (increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value)
deflate (reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices)
detract; take away (take away a part from; diminish)
thin (make thin or thinner)
thin out (make sparse)
slash (cut drastically)
retrench (make a reduction, as in one's workforce)
quench (reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance)
spill (reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail))
shorten (make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
reduction (the act of decreasing or reducing something)
reductive (characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment)
Sense 13
Meaning:
Destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
de-emphasise; de-emphasize; destress (reduce the emphasis)
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reduce"):
obscure (reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 14
Meaning:
Reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
reposition (place into another position)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 15
Meaning:
Example:
The cells reduce
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
divide; part; separate (come apart)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 16
Meaning:
Lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
Example:
She reduced her niece to a servant
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
degrade; demean; disgrace; put down; take down (reduce in worth or character, usually verbally)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 17
Meaning:
Simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
exchange; interchange; replace; substitute (put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items)
Domain category:
math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
reducible (capable of being reduced)
Sense 18
Meaning:
Example:
reduce one's standard of living
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
impoverish (make poor)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sense 19
Meaning:
Bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
Example:
He reduced the population to slavery
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
break; bump; demote; kick downstairs; relegate (assign to a lower position; reduce in rank)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Sense 20
Meaning:
Put down by force or intimidation
Example:
The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land
Synonyms:
keep down; quash; reduce; repress; subdue; subjugate
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "reduce" is one way to...):
crush; oppress; suppress (come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Context examples:
“If a person were to get up, take 10 steps, and sit down again, it appears that the effects of a sedentary lifestyle would be greatly reduced.
(Spending more time standing helps increase energy expenditure and combats the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, University of Granada)
When the grey cub came back to life and again took interest in the far white wall, he found that the population of his world had been reduced.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Research has shown that acupuncture reduces nausea and vomiting after surgery and chemotherapy.
(Acupuncture, NIH: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)
Further experiments showed that transmissible RNA was able to activate a mechanism called 'RNA interference' to block the activity of some genes and reduce the production of certain honey bee proteins.
(Discovery of RNA transfer through royal jelly could aid development of honey bee vaccines, University of Cambridge)
Duodenal expression of multidrug resistance protein 1 is also significantly reduced in individuals that have a homozygous phenotype for this allele.
(ABCB1 2 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Acetazolamide reduces the concentration of bicarbonate, resulting in a decreased synthesis of aqueous humor in the eye, thereby lowering intraocular pressure.
(Acetazolamide, NCI Thesaurus)
Reduced bicarbonate level in circulation induces reduction of intraocular pressure via osmotic mechanism.
(Acetazolamide Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)
A drug that reduces pain and fever (but not inflammation).
(Acetaminophen, NCI Dictionary)
This agent also disrupts tumor neovascularization, reducing tumor blood flow and so inducing a cytotoxic effect.
(ABT-751, NCI Thesaurus)
The study found folic acid alone and B-vitamins with folic acid may reduce cardiovascular disease and stroke.
(Most Popular Supplements Provide No Health Benefit, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)