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to make something less in size, amount, degree, importance, or price: A low-fat diet can reduce the risk of heart disease. Grunn employs 17,900 people, but that number will be reduced by 500 workers. All electronic equipment in the store has been reduced (= lowered in price).
You reduce something when you lessen its volume, size, or degree. That's why we say when someone goes on a diet, it's because they want to reduce; it's a polite way of suggesting they need to drop pounds and become a smaller size.
The meaning of REDUCE is to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate. How to use reduce in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Reduce.
to become or to make something become smaller in size, amount, degree, importance, etc.: Do nuclear weapons really reduce the risk of war? The plane reduced speed as it approached the airport. My weight reduces when I stop eating sugar. We bought a TV that was reduced from $600 to $400 in their spring sale.
Reduce definition: to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.. See examples of REDUCE used in a sentence.
to make or become smaller in size, number, extent, degree, intensity, etc. 2. to bring into a certain state, condition, etc. to reduce a forest to ashes. to reduce someone to despair. 3. (also intr) to make or become slimmer; lose or cause to lose excess weight. 4.
Definition of reduce verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
REDUCE definition: 1. to make something less: 2. to add one or more electrons to a substance or to remove oxygen from…. Learn more.
reduce meaning, definition, what is reduce: to make something smaller or less in siz...: Learn more.
v.t. to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds. to lower in degree, intensity, etc.: to reduce the speed of a car. to bring down to a lower rank, dignity, etc.: a sergeant reduced to a corporal. to treat analytically, as a complex idea. to lower in price.
