Verbs in english

• reduce — Verb – English ～ make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
• reduce — Verb – English ～ 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 — Verb – English ～ narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"
• reduce — Verb – English ～ cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
• reduce — Verb – English ～ be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
• reduce — Verb – English ～ lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"
• reduce — Verb – English ～ cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
• reduce — Verb – English ～ destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
• reduce — Verb – English ～ bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
• reduce — Verb – English ～ 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 — Verb – English ～ undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"
• reduce — Verb – English ～ reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
• reduplicate — Verb – English ～ form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word"
• reduplicate — Verb – English ～ make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"
• reecho — Verb – English ～ repeat back like an echo
• reecho — Verb – English ～ echo repeatedly, echo again and again
• reecho — Verb – English ～ repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back
• reef — Verb – English ～ lower and bring partially inboard; "reef the sailboat's mast"
• reef — Verb – English ～ reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef
• reef — Verb – English ～ roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area

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