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English verb: reduce | |||
| 1. | reduce (change) cut down on; make a reduction in | ||
| Samples | Reduce your daily fat intake. The employer wants to cut back health benefits. | ||
| Synonyms | bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, trim, trim back, trim down | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | decrease, lessen, minify | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | deflate, detract, downsize, inflate, knock off, quench, retrench, shave, shorten, slash, spill, subtract, take away, thin, thin out | ||
| Verb group | cut | ||
| 2. | reduce (change) make less complex | ||
| Samples | Reduce a problem to a single question. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | simplify | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | abbreviate | ||
| 3. | reduce (social) bring to humbler or weaker state or condition | ||
| Samples | He reduced the population to slavery. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | break, bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate | ||
| 4. | reduce (possession) simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | exchange, interchange, replace, substitute | ||
| Domain category | math, mathematics, maths | ||
| 5. | reduce (emotion) lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation | ||
| Samples | She reduced her niece to a servant. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | degrade, demean, disgrace, put down, take down | ||
| 6. | reduce (change) be the essential element | ||
| Samples | The proposal boils down to a compromise. | ||
| Synonyms | boil down, come down | ||
| Pattern of use | Something is ----ing PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | become, turn | ||
| 7. | reduce (change) reduce in size; reduce physically | ||
| Samples | Hot water will shrink the sweater. Can you shrink this image?. | ||
| Synonyms | shrink | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | decrease, lessen, minify | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | contract, depopulate, desolate, downsize, miniaturise, miniaturize, reduce, reef, scale down | ||
| Cause | contract, shrink | ||
| 8. | reduce (possession) lessen and make more modest | ||
| Samples | Reduce one's standard of living. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | impoverish | ||
| 9. | reduce (change) make smaller | ||
| Samples | Reduce an image. | ||
| Synonyms | scale down | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | reduce, shrink | ||
| Antonyms | blow up, enlarge, magnify | ||
| 10. | reduce (change) 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 | ||
| Synonyms | deoxidise, deoxidize | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | benficiate, pole | ||
| Domain category | chemical science, chemistry | ||
| Antonyms | oxidise, oxidate, oxidize | ||
| 11. | reduce (change) narrow or limit | ||
| Samples | Reduce the influx of foreigners. | ||
| Synonyms | tighten | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bound, confine, limit, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel | ||
| 12. | reduce (social) put down by force or intimidation | ||
| Samples | The government quashes any attempt of an uprising. China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently. The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land. | ||
| Synonyms | keep down, quash, repress, subdue, subjugate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | crush, oppress, suppress | ||
| 13. | reduce (contact) undergo meiosis | ||
| Samples | The cells reduce. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | divide, part, separate | ||
| 14. | reduce (contact) reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | reposition | ||
| 15. | reduce (change) destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | de-emphasise, de-emphasize, destress | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | obscure | ||
| Domain category | linguistics | ||
| 16. | reduce (change) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | ||
| Samples | The manuscript must be shortened. | ||
| Synonyms | abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, shorten | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | decrease, lessen, minify | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, concentrate, condense, digest, expurgate, shorten | ||
| Verb group | cut, edit, edit out | ||
| Antonyms | elaborate, expatiate, expound, lucubrate, dilate, exposit, flesh out, enlarge, expand | ||
| 17. | reduce (change) be cooked until very little liquid is left | ||
| Samples | The sauce should reduce to one cup. | ||
| Synonyms | boil down, concentrate, decoct | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | decrease, diminish, fall, lessen | ||
| Domain category | cookery, cooking, preparation | ||
| 18. | reduce (change) cook until very little liquid is left | ||
| Samples | The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time. | ||
| Synonyms | boil down, concentrate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | decrease, lessen, minify | ||
| Domain category | cookery, cooking, preparation | ||
| 19. | reduce (change) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | ||
| Samples | Cut bourbon. | ||
| Synonyms | cut, dilute, thin, thin out | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | weaken | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | water down | ||
| 20. | reduce (body) take off weight | ||
| Synonyms | lose weight, melt off, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change state, turn | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | sweat off | ||
| Antonyms | gain, put on | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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