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Definitions for Reducing

[1] to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
[2] to lower in degree, intensity, etc.: to reduce the speed of a car.
[3] to bring down to a lower rank, dignity, etc.: a sergeant reduced to a corporal
[4] to treat analytically, as a complex idea.
[5] to lower in price.
[6] to bring to a certain state, condition, arrangement, etc.: to reduce glass to powder.
[7] to bring under control or authority.
[8] Cookery . to evaporate water from (a sauce, soup, or other liquid), usually by boiling.
[9] Photography . to lessen the density of (an exposed negative).
[10] to adjust or correct by making allowances, as an astronomical observation.
[11] Mathematics . to change the denomination or form, but not the value, of (a fraction, polynomial, etc.).
[12] Chemistry . to add electrons to. to deoxidize. to add hydrogen to. to change (a compound) so that the valence of the positive element is lower.
[13] Chemistry , Metallurgy . to bring into the metallic state by separating from nonmetallic constituents.
[14] to thin or dilute: to reduce paint with oil or turpentine.
[15] to lower the alcoholic concentration of (spirits) by diluting with water.
[16] Surgery . to restore to the normal place, relation, or condition, as a fractured bone.
[17] Phonetics . to modify the quality of (a speech sound) to one of lesser distinctiveness, especially to pronounce (an unstressed vowel) as (ə) or another centralized vowel, as in the unstressed syllables of medicinal.
[18] to become reduced.
[19] to become lessened, especially in weight.
[20] to be turned into or made to equal something: All our difficulties reduce to financial problems.
[21] Cell Biology . to undergo meiosis.
[22] (also intr) to make or become smaller in size, number, extent, degree, intensity, etc
[23] to bring into a certain state, condition, etc to reduce a forest to ashes ; to reduce someone to despair
[24] (also intr) to make or become slimmer; lose or cause to lose excess weight
[25] to impoverish (esp in the phrase in reduced circumstances )
[26] to bring into a state of submission to one's authority; subjugate the whole country was reduced after three months
[27] to bring down the price of (a commodity) the shirt was reduced in the sale
[28] to lower the rank or status of; demote he was reduced from corporal to private ; reduced to the ranks
[29] to set out systematically as an aid to understanding; simplify his theories have been reduced in a popular treatise
[30] maths to modify or simplify the form of (an expression or equation), esp by substitution of one term by another
[31] cookery to make (a sauce, stock, etc) more concentrated by boiling away some of the water in it
[32] to thin out (paint) by adding oil, turpentine, etc; dilute
[33] (also intr) chem to undergo or cause to undergo a chemical reaction with hydrogen or formation of a hydride to lose or cause to lose oxygen atoms to undergo or cause to undergo an increase in the number of electrons Compare oxidize
[34] photog to lessen the density of (a negative or print) by converting some of the blackened silver in the emulsion to soluble silver compounds by an oxidation process using a photographic reducer
[35] surgery to manipulate or reposition (a broken or displaced bone, organ, or part) back to its normal site
[36] (also intr) biology to undergo or cause to undergo meiosis

Words related to Reducing

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Origin of Reducing

e1325–75; Middle English reducen to lead back < Latin redūcere to lead back, bring back, equivalent to re- re- + dūcere to lead

Other words from Reducing

an·ti·re·duc·ing , adjective, noun
non·re·duc·ing , adjective
o·ver·re·duce , verb, o·ver·re·duced, o·ver·re·duc·ing.
re•duc′ i•ble adj.

Word origin for Reducing

eC14: from Latin redūcere to bring back, from re- + dūcere to lead

Synonyms for Reducing

abbreviating, compressing, condensing, contracting, contraction, decreasing, dieting, diminishing, discounting, downsizing, lessening, reduction, shortening, shrinking, cutting down, marking down, paring down