Wondering how to hyphenate the English word reduce? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.
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Cut down on Make a reduction in Reduce your daily fat intake The employer wants to cut back health benefits |
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Make less complex Reduce a problem to a single question |
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Bring to humbler or weaker state or condition He reduced the population to slavery |
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Simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another |
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Lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation She reduced her niece to a servant |
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Be the essential element The proposal boils down to a compromise |
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Reduce in size Reduce physically Hot water will shrink the sweater Can you shrink this image? |
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Lessen and make more modest Reduce one's standard of living |
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Make smaller Reduce an image |
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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 |
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Narrow or limit Reduce the influx of foreigners |
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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 |
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Undergo meiosis The cells reduce |
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Reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site |
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Destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it |
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Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements The manuscript must be shortened |
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Be cooked until very little liquid is left The sauce should reduce to one cup |
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Cook until very little liquid is left The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time |
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Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture Cut bourbon |
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Take off weight |
| verb | cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down, decrease, lessen, minify |
| verb | simplify |
| verb | demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs
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| verb | substitute, replace |
| verb | take down, degrade, disgrace, demean, put down
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| verb | come down, boil down, become, turn |
| verb | shrink, decrease, lessen, minify |
| verb | impoverish |
| verb | scale down, shrink |
| verb | deoxidize, deoxidise, change |
| verb | tighten, restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle |
| verb | repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, oppress, suppress, crush |
| verb | separate, divide, part |
| verb | reposition |
| verb | abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, decrease, lessen, minify |
| verb | boil down, decoct, concentrate, decrease, diminish, lessen, fall |
| verb | boil down, concentrate, decrease, lessen, minify |
| verb | dilute, thin, thin out, cut, weaken |
| verb | melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down, change state, turn |