DICTOMETER

REDUCE

1. Synonyms:
   • Reduce
   • Cut down
   • Cut back
   • Trim
   • Trim down
   • Trim back
   • Cut
   • Bring down
   Definitions:
   • cut down on
   • make a reduction in
   Examples:
   • Reduce your daily fat intake
   • The employer wants to cut back health benefits
   Antonyms:
   blow up, enlarge, magnify
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Reduce
   Definitions:
   • make less complex
   Examples:
   • Reduce a problem to a single question
   Antonyms:
   gain, put on
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Reduce
   Definitions:
   • bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
   Examples:
   • He reduced the population to slavery
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Reduce
   Definitions:
   • simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Reduce
   Definitions:
   • lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
   Examples:
   • She reduced her niece to a servant
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Reduce
   • Come down
   • Boil down
   Definitions:
   • be the essential element
   Examples:
   • The proposal boils down to a compromise
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Shrink
   • Reduce
   Definitions:
   • reduce in size
   • reduce physically
   Examples:
   • Hot water will shrink the sweater
   • Can you shrink this image?
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Reduce
   Definitions:
   • lessen and make more modest
   Examples:
   • Reduce one's standard of living
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Reduce
   • Scale down
   Definitions:
   • make smaller
   Examples:
   • Reduce an image
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Deoxidize
    • Deoxidise
    • Reduce
    Definitions:
    • 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
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Reduce
    • Tighten
    Definitions:
    • narrow or limit
    Examples:
    • Reduce the influx of foreigners
    
    
12. Synonyms:
    • Repress
    • Quash
    • Keep down
    • Subdue
    • Subjugate
    • Reduce
    Definitions:
    • put down by force or intimidation
    Examples:
    • The government quashes any attempt of an uprising
    • China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently
    • The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land
    
    
13. Synonyms:
    • Reduce
    Definitions:
    • undergo meiosis
    Examples:
    • The cells reduce
    
    
14. Synonyms:
    • Reduce
    Definitions:
    • reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
    
    
15. Synonyms:
    • Reduce
    Definitions:
    • destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
    
    
16. Synonyms:
    • Abridge
    • Foreshorten
    • Abbreviate
    • Shorten
    • Cut
    • Contract
    • Reduce
    Definitions:
    • reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
    Examples:
    • The manuscript must be shortened
    
    
17. Synonyms:
    • Boil down
    • Reduce
    • Decoct
    • Concentrate
    Definitions:
    • be cooked until very little liquid is left
    Examples:
    • The sauce should reduce to one cup
    
    
18. Synonyms:
    • Reduce
    • Boil down
    • Concentrate
    Definitions:
    • cook until very little liquid is left
    Examples:
    • The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
    
    
19. Synonyms:
    • Dilute
    • Thin
    • Thin out
    • Reduce
    • Cut
    Definitions:
    • lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
    Examples:
    • Cut bourbon
    
    
20. Synonyms:
    • Reduce
    • Melt off
    • Lose weight
    • Slim
    • Slenderize
    • Thin
    • Slim down
    Definitions:
    • take off weight