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
reducere
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~ gøre fx suppe mere koncentreret ved at lade den ko ...
reducere
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~ gøre mindre mht. omfang, antal, grad e.l.
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"
reecho
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~ repeat back like an echo
reecho
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~ echo repeatedly, echo again and again
reecho
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~ repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back
reef
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~ lower and bring partially inboard; "reef the sailboat's mast"
reef
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~ reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef