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Definition of Reduce

Reduce To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. 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. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia. Related Definitions: Action, Adapted, Altering, And, Another, Any, Are, Arrangement, As, Astronomy, Back, Bring, By, Capture, Certain, Change, Class, Classes, Classification, Combine, Common, Computation, Condition, Conquer, Degrade, Denomination, Denominator, Deoxidize, Diminish, Dislocation, Displaced, Drawing, Expression, Expenses, Ferric, Ferrous, Form, Former, Fort, Fracture, From, Fruit, General, Grinding, Heat, Hence, Hernia, Hours, Humble, Hydrogen, Impair, In, Inferior, Intensity, Into, Iron, Is, Kneading, Language, Lead, Lower, Mass, Metallic, Numbers, Of, One, Opposed, Or, Order, Organ, Oxidize, Oxygen, Paper, Part, Pasty, Pence, Place, Pounding, Pounds, Powder, Proper, Province, Pulp, Quality, Quantity, Rank, Reduce, Reduced, Remove, Respect, Restore, Rubbing, Same, Separating, Sergeant, Series, Size, State, Subdue, Subject, Substance, The, Their, To, Under, Use, Value, With, Within, Without, Wood

Reduce Quotations We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important. John W. Snow I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis. John W. Snow One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! Winston Churchill The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business. Pauline Hanson Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. Mason Cooley

Reduce Translations reduce in Dutch is reduceren, inkrimpen, herleiden reduce in Finnish is supistaa reduce in German is reduzieren reduce in Italian is diminuire, ridurre, rimpicciolire, degradare reduce in Latin is arto, macero reduce in Portuguese is reduza reduce in Spanish is descontar, reducir, disminuir, achicar

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