• take off weight
• lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
• narrow or limit; "Reduce the influx of foreigners"
• cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook Reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
• be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should Reduce to one cup"
• be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
• 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
• make smaller; "Reduce an image"
• Reduce in size; Reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
• make less complex; "Reduce a problem to a single question"
• Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
• cut down on; make a reduction in; "Reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
• reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
• undergo meiosis; "The cells Reduce"
• lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She Reduced her niece to a servant"
• simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
• lessen and make more modest; "Reduce one''s standard of living"
• bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He Reduced the population to slavery"
• 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"

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