Reduce word meaning and definition

[verb] take off weight
[verb] lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
[verb] narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"
[verb] cook until very little liquid is left, as of sauces; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
[verb] be cooked until very little is left; as of sauces; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
[verb] be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
[verb] remove oxygen from a compound, in chemistry
[verb] make smaller; "reduce an image"
[verb] reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
[verb] make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
[verb] reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
[verb] cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
[verb] reposition back to its normal site, as of a broken bone, in surgery
[verb] undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"
[verb] lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"
[verb] simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
[verb] lessen; "reduced standard of living"
[verb] bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
[verb] put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"

\Re*duce"\ (r[-e]*d[=u]s"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reduced} (-d[=u]st"),; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reducing} (-d[=u]"s[i^]ng).] [L. reducere, reductum; pref. red-. re-, re- + ducere to lead. See {Duke}, and cf. {Redoubt}, n.] 1. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. [Obs.] And to his brother's house reduced his wife. --Chapman. The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us. --Evelyn. 2. To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat. ``An ancient but reduced family.'' --Sir W. Scott. Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce 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. 3. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort. 4. To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp. It were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust. --Milton. 5. To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules. 6. (Arith.)
(a) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.
(b) To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc. 7. (Chem.) To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to {oxidize}. 8. (Med.) To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia. {Reduced iron} (Chem.), metallic iron obtained through deoxidation of an oxide of iron by exposure to a current of hydrogen or other reducing agent. When hydrogen is used the product is called also {iron by hydrogen}. {To reduce an equation} (Alg.), to bring the unknown quantity by itself on one side, and all the known quantities on the other side, without destroying the equation. {To reduce an expression} (Alg.), to obtain an equivalent expression of simpler form. {To reduce a square} (Mil.), to reform the line or column from the square. Syn: To diminish; lessen; decrease; abate; shorten; curtail; impair; lower; subject; subdue; subjugate; conquer.

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