reduce
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~ lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"
reduce
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~ cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
reduce
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~ destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
reduce
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~ bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
reduce
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~ 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
reduce
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~ undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"
reduce
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~ reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
reduced
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~ well below normal (especially in price)
reduced
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~ made less in size or amount or degree
reducer
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~ pipefitting that joins two pipes of different diameter
reducer
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~ a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver
reducible
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~ capable of being reduced; "reducible to a set of principles of human nature"- Edmund Wilson
reducing
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~ loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer; "a doctor supervised her reducing"
reducing diet
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~ a diet designed to help you lose weight (especially fat)
reducing
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~ 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
reducing agent
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~ a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver
reductant
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~ a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver
reductase
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~ an enzyme that catalyses the biochemical reduction of some specified substance
reductio ad absurdum
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~ (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction
reductio
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~ (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction