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REDUCED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made less in size or amount or degree
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
ablated (made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization)
attenuate; attenuated; faded; weakened (reduced in strength)
attenuated (of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or no distortion)
bated (diminished or moderated)
belittled; diminished; small (made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth))
cut; slashed ((used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply)
diminished ((of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval)
minimized (reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree)
remittent ((of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity)
shriveled; shrivelled; shrunken (reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Well below normal (especially in price)
Synonyms:
reduced; rock-bottom
Classified under:
Similar:
low (less than normal in degree or intensity or amount)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb reduce
Context examples:
An orally active derivative of the short-chain fatty acid butyrate with potential antineoplastic activity. 4-Phenylbutyrate inhibits histone deacetylase, resulting in cell cycle gene expression modulation, reduced cell proliferation, increased cell differentiation, and apoptosis.
(Oral Sodium Phenylbutyrate, NCI Thesaurus)
NV1020 has shown reduced virulence against normal tissues and a decreased neurovirulence in comparison with some other modified HSV strains.
(NV1020, NCI Thesaurus)
Histamine activity is reduced by inhibition of histamine synthesis or destruction of histamine-releasing neurons in the brain.
(Negative Regulation of Histamine Release, NCI Thesaurus)
Compared to LPS, MPLA exerts a similar immunostimulatory activity but with reduced toxicity.
(Monophosphoryl Lipid A, NCI Thesaurus)
A carbohydrate which cannot be reduced to smaller units by hydrolysis; it is the simplest structural form of a carbohydrate.
(Monosaccharide, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
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)
When mice consumed the high-salt diet in this study, their brains also showed evidence of tau aggregates that coincided with reduced cognitive abilities.
(Pathogenic tau and cognitive impairment are precipitated by a high-salt diet, National Institutes of Health)
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)
Within an organism, nanaomycin A is first reduced by flavin or NADH dehydrogenase then rapidly autooxidized leading to the production of singlet molecular oxygen (O2-).
(Nanafrocin, NCI Thesaurus)
You have reduced him to his present state of poverty—comparative poverty.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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