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reduce 
verb
- cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, trim, trim back, trim down - make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"
- be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
Synonyms: boil down, come down - reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
Synonyms: shrink - lessen and make more modest; "reduce one''s standard of living"
- make smaller; "reduce an image"
Synonyms: scale down Antonyms: blow up, enlarge, magnify - 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
Synonyms: deoxidise, deoxidize Antonyms: oxidize, oxidise, oxidate, oxidize, oxidise, oxidate - narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"
Synonyms: tighten - 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"
Synonyms: keep down, quash, repress, subdue, subjugate - undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, shorten Antonyms: elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate - be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
Synonyms: boil down, concentrate, decoct - cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
Synonyms: boil down, concentrate - lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
Synonyms: cut, dilute, thin, thin out - take off weight
Synonyms: lose weight, melt off, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin Antonyms: gain, put on
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