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(v)
(transitive and intransitive with on) To reduce the amount of (something).
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(transitive) To reduce the size of something whilst maintaining proportion.
(intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
(transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.
To defeat decisively, to suppress.
(transitive) To repress.
(transitive) To make (a ruler or government) lose their position of power.
(transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
(transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
(intransitive) To decrease.
(transitive) To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
(transitive) To make shorter; to shorten in duration or extent.
(ambitransitive) To reduce weight; to make or become thinner.
(intransitive) To become less heavy or obese.
(transitive) To make more slender.
(transitive) To make thin or thinner.
(transitive) To make tighter.
(transitive) To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.
(intransitive) To lose weight in order to achieve slimness.
(idiomatic) To reduce the amount of something.
To forcibly impose obedience, servitude, or submission upon (a country, a people, etc.).
(transitive) To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.
(intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
(chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
(transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
(intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant.
(transitive) To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
(cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
To make shorter.
Alternative spelling of deoxidize. [(transitive) (chemistry) To remove oxygen from.]
(transitive) (chemistry) To remove oxygen from.
(intransitive) To become sparse.
take off weight
cut down on; make a reduction in
(intransitive) To lose weight.
(transitive) To reduce the workforce of.
To decrease a value by a basic quantity unit.
(transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
(transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
(n)
A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
(ambitransitive) To decrease in intensity or magnitude.
(intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
(adj)
(of problems or flaws) Lessened, reduced, or diminished, and thereby made better, improved.
An act in which a company downsizes or is downsized.
(transitive) To make smaller.
A lessening, decrease or reduction.
(transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
A growing lesser; reduction or decrease.
lessened, reduced
The act of something being lowered.
(intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
To reduce in size; to downsize.
The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression.
declining; growing less
(transitive) To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
(intransitive) To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack; to lag.
decline
(transitive) To remove or reduce the emphasis from something; to make something less important; to play down.
(transitive) To lower the rank or status of.
To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
(intransitive) To go slower.
The act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away.
(intransitive) To fall into a state of calm; to be calm again; to settle down; to become tranquil.
(intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
The act, process, or result of reducing.
(archaic) To make less; to lessen.
The process of becoming narrow.
shrunken
(transitive) To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
(transitive, figurative) To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
(transitive) To get in the way of; to hinder.
(transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller or less by some amount.
(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
(transitive) To make difficult to accomplish; to act as an obstacle; to frustrate.
(transitive, arithmetic) To remove or reduce; especially to reduce a quantity or number.
(transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
(figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
(transitive) To delete.
The act of declining or refusing something.
Alternative form of cost cutting; also used attributively: [The act of reducing one's spending.]
Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
(transitive) To control or keep in check.
(transitive) To lower in value or social position.
(heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.
Serving to restrict.
(transitive, of problems or flaws) To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
The act of curtailing.
The act of lowering something to its smallest value or extent.
(intransitive) To rest and become relieved of stress.
(transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate.
(transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
(transitive) To destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
(transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
(intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
The removal of stress or discomfort.
The act of limiting or the state of being limited.
A limitation.