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To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
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to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
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To lose weight.
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To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
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Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced.
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To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
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to reduce a province or a fort
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To bring to an inferior state or condition.
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to reduce a city to ashes
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To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
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To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
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To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
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To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
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To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
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To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
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To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
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It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
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To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
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To reform a line or column from (a square).
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To strike off the payroll.
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To annul by legal means.
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To translate (a book, document, etc.).
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a book reduced into English