reduce

1. n. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. Source: opted

2. n. 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. Source: opted

3. n. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort. Source: opted

4. n. 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. Source: opted

5. n. To class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/bring">bring into a class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/certain">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. Source: opted

6. n. 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. Source: opted

7. n. 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. Source: opted

8. n. 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. Source: opted

9. n. To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia. Source: opted

10. v. cut down on; make a reduction in Source: wordnet

11. v. make less complex Source: wordnet

12. v. bring to humbler or weaker state or condition Source: wordnet

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