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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishreducen, fromOld Frenchreduire, fromLatinredūcō(“reduce”); fromre-(“back”) +dūcō(“lead”). Seeduke, and compare withredoubt.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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reduce (third-person singular simple presentreduces,present participlereducing,simple past and past participlereduced)

  1. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; todiminish, tolower.
    toreduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
    • 2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, inAmerican Scientist‎[1], volume100, number 1, archived fromthe original on10 November 2013, page60:
      Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts canreduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
    • 2022 January 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Emergency timetables as absences surge due to COVID”, inRAIL, number948, page 6:
      Most train operators havereduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID.
  2. (intransitive) Tolose weight.
  3. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; todegrade, todemote.
    toreduce a sergeant to the ranks
  4. (transitive) Tohumble; toconquer; tosubdue; tocapture.
    toreduce a province or a fort
  5. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
    toreduce a city to ashes
  6. (transitive) To beforced bycircumstances (into something one considersunworthy).
    reduced to silence
    • 1983 December 31, “What a Drag”, inGay Community News, volume11, number24, page 9:
      The press release calls him "the hottest female impressionist in show business today." (One wonders how many more words press agents will have to come up with before they arereduced to actually saying "drag queen.")
  8. (transitive, cooking) Todecrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.
    • 2011, Edward Behr, James MacGuire,The Art of Eating Cookbook: Essential Recipes from the First 25 Years.:
      Serve the oxtails with mustard or a sauce made byreducing the soup, if any is left, to a slightly thick sauce.
  10. (transitive, chemistry) To addelectrons /hydrogen or to removeoxygen.
    Formaldehyde can bereduced to form methanol.
  11. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal fromore by removing nonmetallic elements in asmelter.
  12. (transitive, mathematics) Tosimplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
  13. (transitive, computer science) Toexpress the solution of a problem in terms of another (known)algorithm.
  14. (transitive, logic) Toconvert asyllogism to aclearer orsimpler form.
  15. (transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
    It is important that all business contracts bereduced to writing.
  17. (transitive, medicine) To perform areduction; to restore afracture ordislocation to the correctalignment.
  18. (transitive, military) To reform aline orcolumn from (asquare).
  19. (transitive, military) To strike off thepayroll.
  20. (transitive, Scots law) Toannul by legal means.
  21. (transitive, phonetics, phonology) Topronounce (asound orword) with lesseffort.
    The first vowel ofsupport isreduced toschwa by most English speakers.
  22. (transitive, obsolete) Totranslate (a book, document, etc.).
    a bookreduced into English

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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  • (antonym(s) of“to bring down”):increase

Derived terms

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Translations

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to bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something
to lose weight—see alsolose weight
to bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote—see alsodegrade,‎demote
to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture
to bring to an inferior state or condition
to decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling
chemistry: to add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen
metallurgy: to produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter
math: to simplify an equation or formula without changing its value
computer science: to express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm
logic: to convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
law: to convert to written form (as in "reduce to writing")
medicine: to perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment
military: to reform a line or column from (a square)
military: to strike off the payroll
Scots law: to annul by legal means—seeannul
(obsolete in English) to translate (a book, document, etc.)—seetranslate
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References

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Galician

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Verb

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reduce

  1. inflection ofreducir:
    1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. second-personsingularimperative

Italian

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Etymology

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FromLatinredux(“that returns”).

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Adjective

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reduce m orfby sense (pluralreduci) [withda]

  1. returning (from)
    Synonym:ritornato

Noun

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reduce m orfby sense (pluralreduci)

  1. survivor
    Synonym:sopravvissuto
  2. veteran(of a conflict)
    Synonyms:veterano,excombattente

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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redūce

  1. second-personsingularpresentactiveimperative ofredūcō

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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rĕduce

  1. ablativemasculine/feminine/neutersingular ofrē̆dux

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinreducere,Frenchréduire, based onduce. Compare the inherited doubletarăduce.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /reˈdutʃe/,[re̞ˈd̪utʃe̞]

Verb

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a reduce (third-person singular presentreduce,past participleredus,third-person subjunctivereducă) 3rd conjugation

  1. (transitive) toreduce, tolessen

Conjugation

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    conjugation ofreduce (third conjugation, past participle in -s)
infinitiveareduce
gerundreducând
past participleredus
numbersingularplural
person1st person2nd person3rd person1st person2nd person3rd person
indicativeeutuel/eanoivoiei/ele
presentreducreducireducereducemreducețireduc
imperfectreduceamreduceaireduceareduceamreduceațireduceau
simple perfectreduseireduseșiredusereduserămreduserățireduseră
pluperfectredusesemreduseseșiredusesereduseserămreduseserățireduseseră
subjunctiveeutuel/eanoivoiei/ele
presentsăreducsăreducisăreducăsăreducemsăreducețisăreducă
imperative—tu——voi—
affirmativeredureduceți
negativenureducenureduceți

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Spanish

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Verb

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reduce

  1. inflection ofreducir:
    1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. second-personsingularimperative
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