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Noun: reducing ri'd(y)oosing- Any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent
- reduction - Loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer
"a doctor supervised her reducing"
Verb: reduce ri'd(y)oos- Cut down on; make a reduction in
"reduce your daily fat intake"
- cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring 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
- come down, boil down - Reduce in size; reduce physically
- shrink - Lessen and make more modest
"reduce one's standard of living" - Make smaller
"reduce an image"
- scale down - 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
- deoxidize, deoxidise [Brit] - Narrow or limit
"reduce the influx of foreigners"
- tighten - Put down by force or intimidation
- repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate - Undergo meiosis
"The cells reduce" - Reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- Destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract - Be cooked until very little liquid is left
"The sauce should reduce to one cup"
- boil down, decoct [archaic], concentrate - Cook until very little liquid is left
"The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
- boil down, concentrate - Lessen the strength or flavour of a solution or mixture
- dilute, thin, thin out, cut - Take off weight
- melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down, slenderise [Brit]
Derived forms: reducings See also: reducer, reducible, reduction, reductive Type of: become, bound, break, bump, change, change state, chemical reaction, confine, crush, decrease, de-emphasise [Brit], de-emphasize, degrade, demean, demote, destress, diminish, disgrace, divide, exchange, fall, impoverish, interchange, kick downstairs, lessen, limit, loss, minify, oppress, part, put down, reaction, relegate, replace, reposition, restrain, restrict, separate, simplify, substitute, suppress, take down, throttle, trammel, turn, weaken Antonym: blow up, gain Encyclopedia: Reduce Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Reducing |