reduce
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～ be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
reduce
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～ lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
reduce
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～ make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
reduce
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～ put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
reduce
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～ narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"
reduce
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～ cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
reduce
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～ be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
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
reduplicate
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～ form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word"
reduplicate
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～ make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"