| 单词 | reduced |
| 释义 | reduced (once / 153 pages) adj A reduced thing has been lessened or subtracted from. If you want to ride your bike in Italy and you’re on a budget, look for reduced airfare. For a reduced risk of injury, wear a helmet when you get there. To reduce something is to make it smaller or lessen it in some way. Therefore, anything reduced is smaller than it was before. If you’re pedaling your way through Italy and hit a giant hill, you’ll probably have reduced pedal power and go much slower. This word applies to things that are going down in degree or amount. There could be reduced pain, reduced cost, or reduced size. Anything described as reduced can also be called decreased. WORD FAMILYreduced: unreduced+/irreducible: irreducibly/reduce: reduced, reducer, reduces, reducible, reducing, reduction, reductive/reducer: reducers/reducible: irreducible/reduction: reductionism, reductions/reductionism: reductionist/reductive: reductively, reductivism USAGE EXAMPLESThe bullying remained, but the joy faded, and the comedy was often reduced to nasty zingers and schoolyard-quality taunts. New York Times(Jan 03, 2017) He said he'd consider a reduced salary to return, which would probably be the only way for that to happen. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) “It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.” New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj made less in size or amount or degree Syn|Ant decreased ablated made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization attenuate, attenuated, faded, weakenedreduced in strength attenuatedof an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or no distortion bateddiminished or moderated belittled, diminished, smallmade to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) cut, slashed(used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply diminished(of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval minimizedreduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree remittent(of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity shriveled, shrivelled, shrunkenreduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity increased made greater in size or amount or degree accrued, accumulatedperiodically accumulated over time augmentedadded to or made greater in amount or number or strength enhancedincreased or intensified in value or beauty or quality hyperbolic, inflatedenlarged beyond truth or reasonableness enlarged, exaggerated, magnifiedenlarged to an abnormal degree multipliedgreatly increased as by multiplication elevated, raisedincreased in amount or degree redoubledbecome much greater in intensity or size or amount 2adj well below normal (especially in price) Syn rock-bottom low less than normal in degree or intensity or amount |
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