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
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