reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down (verb)

cut down on; make a reduction in

"reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"

reduce (verb)

make less complex

"reduce a problem to a single question"

reduce (verb)

bring to humbler or weaker state or condition

"He reduced the population to slavery"

reduce (verb)

simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another

reduce (verb)

lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation

"She reduced her niece to a servant"

reduce, come down, boil down (verb)

be the essential element

"The proposal boils down to a compromise"

shrink, reduce (verb)

reduce in size; reduce physically

"Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"

reduce (verb)

lessen and make more modest

"reduce one's standard of living"

reduce, scale down (verb)

make smaller

"reduce an image"

deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce (verb)

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

reduce, tighten (verb)

narrow or limit

"reduce the influx of foreigners"

repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, reduce (verb)

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"

reduce (verb)

undergo meiosis

"The cells reduce"

reduce (verb)

reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site

reduce (verb)

destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it

abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce (verb)

reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

"The manuscript must be shortened"

boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrate (verb)

be cooked until very little liquid is left

"The sauce should reduce to one cup"

reduce, boil down, concentrate (verb)

cook until very little liquid is left

"The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"

dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut (verb)

lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

"cut bourbon"

reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down (verb)

take off weight

reduce (Verb)

To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

reduce (Verb)

To lose weight.

reduce (Verb)

To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.

reduce (Verb)

To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.

reduce (Verb)

To bring to an inferior state or condition.

reduce (Verb)

To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.

reduce (Verb)

To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.

reduce (Verb)

To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.

reduce (Verb)

To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.

reduce (Verb)

To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").

REDUCE

Reduce is a general-purpose computer algebra system geared towards applications in physics. The development of the Reduce computer algebra system was started in the 1960s by Anthony C. Hearn. Since then, many scientists from all over the world have contributed to its development under his direction. Reduce is written entirely in its own LISP dialect called Portable Standard Lisp, expressed in an ALGOL-like syntax called RLISP. The latter is used as a basis for Reduce's user-level language. Implementations of Reduce are available on most variants of Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows, or Apple Macintosh systems by using an underlying Portable Standard Lisp or Codemist Standard LISP implementation. The Julia package Reduce.jl uses Reduce as a backend and implements its semantics in Julia style. Reduce was open sourced in December 2008 and is available for free under a modified BSD license on SourceForge. Previously it had cost $695.