Definition of reduce

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Reduce (n.) To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

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Sponge :: Sponge (n.) Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked..
Appall :: Appall (a.) To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight..
Absorbent :: Absorbent (n.) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts..
Beggar :: Beggar (v. t.) To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself..
Isobar :: Isobar (n.) A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is the same either at a given time, or for a certain period (mean height), as for a year; an isopiestic line..
Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc..
Tough-pitch :: Tough-pitch (n.) Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.
Category :: Category (n.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament..
Slug :: Slug (v. i.) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; -- said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm..
Average :: Average (v. t.) To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean..
Decivilize :: Decivilize (v. t.) To reduce from civilization to a savage state.
Pulverize :: Pulverize (v. t.) To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued..
Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To reduce in estimation; to deprive.
Codify :: Codify (v. t.) To reduce to a code, as laws..
Order :: Order (n.) To put in order; to reduce to a methodical arrangement; to arrange in a series, or with reference to an end. Hence, to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule..
Qualify :: Qualify (v. t.) Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors..
Quiet :: Quiet (v. t.) To stop motion in; to still; to reduce to a state of rest, or of silence..
Fibrillation :: Fibrillation (n.) The state of being reduced to fibers.
Lower :: Lower (a.) To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret..
Systematizer :: Systematize (v. t.) To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas..
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