Reduce

What do we mean by reduce?

To bring down, as in extent, amount, or degree; diminish. synonym: decrease. intransitive verb

To bring to a humbler, weaker, difficult, or forced state or condition; especially. intransitive verb

To gain control of; subject or conquer. intransitive verb

To subject to destruction. intransitive verb

To bring to a specified undesirable state, as of weakness or helplessness. intransitive verb

To compel to desperate acts. intransitive verb

To lower in rank or grade; demote. intransitive verb

To thicken or intensify the flavor of (a sauce, for example) by slow boiling. intransitive verb

To lower the price of. intransitive verb

To decrease the viscosity of (paint, for example), as by adding a solvent. intransitive verb

To put in a simpler or more systematic form; simplify or codify. intransitive verb

To turn into powder; pulverize. intransitive verb

To decrease the valence of (an atom) by adding electrons. intransitive verb

To remove oxygen from (a compound). intransitive verb

To add hydrogen to (a compound). intransitive verb

To change to a metallic state by removing nonmetallic constituents; smelt. intransitive verb

To simplify the form of (an expression, such as a fraction) without changing the value. intransitive verb

To restore (a fractured or displaced body part) to a normal condition or position. intransitive verb

To pronounce (a stressed vowel) as the unstressed version of that vowel or as schwa. intransitive verb

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

To lose weight.

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

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

To bring to an inferior state or condition.

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

To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.

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

To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.

To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.

To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form

To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)

To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

To reform a line or column from (a square).

To strike off the payroll.

To annul by legal means.

To translate (a book, document, etc.).

Words that are spelled similarly to reduce:
reduce, deduce, educe, seduce, reduct.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word reduce:
emissions, greenhouse, congestion, footprint, dependence, likelihood, incidence, costs, eliminate, drag, pollution, deficit, consumption, friction, risk, mortality, burden, risks, noise, carbon, reducing, dioxide, impacts, chances, waste, efficiency, improve, unemployment, effectiveness, complexity, reduction, stress, amount, weight, debt, load, cost, increase, decrease, taxes, symptoms, exposure, impact, fuel, infection, pain, rates, poverty, energy, spending, traffic, thereby, gas, usage, effects, heat, levels, transmission, environmental.

Words that rhyme with reduce:
loose, obtuse, use, abuse, produce, induce, goose, introduce, juice, diffuse, abstruse, deuce, deduce, excuse, spruce, recluse, nous, sluice, moose, truce, profuse, noose, seduce, luce, mousse, reuse, chartreuse, disabuse, misuse, caboose, zeus, reproduce, duce, bruce, footloose, douce, prepuce, coos, disuse, reintroduce, seuss, boose, yous, canada goose, foose, let loose, pruce, cuisse, hoose, substance abuse, neuss, brent goose, on the loose, break loose, grape juice, snow goose, tyus, apple juice, il duce, mother goose, overproduce, in use, blue goose, drug abuse, barnacle goose, carnal abuse, carrot juice, child abuse, out of use, brant goose, robert the bruce, colorado spruce, gastric juice, hair mousse, engelmann spruce, pineapple juice, alcohol abuse, pancreatic juice, orange juice, reuss, greylag goose, colorado blue spruce, cruce, black spruce, canadian goose, fruit juice, lemon juice, slip noose, solan goose, tomato juice, chocolate mousse, cranberry juice, drug of abuse, preuss, white spruce, yellow spruce, flag of truce, norway spruce, chinese goose, douglas spruce.

Adjectives that are often used to describe reduce:
shift, call, symbolic, practise, branch, and, elderly, routine.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective reduce:
costs, heat, effects, stress, time, taxes, session, risk, distortions, business, your, barriers, process, speed, trial, goal, permeability, friction, impairment, fear, dose, system, cost, risks, package, renal, parents, method, expenses, fee, run, regressivity, error.

Consonant match to reduce:
radices, radis, radice, rhodus, redus, raid us, ray dose, read s, read us, readus, red s, reed s, reid s, ride us, rode us, rowed us.

Words that sound like reduce:
reduce, red house, produce, reduced, traduce, redus, redos, radis, radice, road house, redis, rhodus, readies, reducer, red eyes, redas, redo, ruddy, ruts, roadies, radu, re-do, rattus, rowdies, rodas, rutz, re do, ratus, rudis, ruds, rhodos, rotis, ritus, rodos, redoes, redoubts, rudds, ratis, redes, raday, ready, reds, ritz, riddance, redress, reddish, redeye, rets, rits, redness, writs, rids, reddy, redish, redox, red-eye, reddest, ryda, red dress, rideau, redi, red eye, redditch, retz, ritts, red shoes, red death, red hots, ridha, red sauce, iridesce, redds, red dye, red x, red horse, red dust, producer, produced, protests, deduce, paradis, radi, rada, radha, rades, adduce, aurous, radia, medus, broadus, erdos, hedis, gradus, raatz, broaddus, raddatz, radames, ertis, aroids, raddi.