Definition of reduce

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Reduce (n.) To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat..

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Conquer :: Conquer (v. t.) To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to overcome by force of arms; to cause to yield; to vanquish.
Ice :: Ice (n.) Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4ยก C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats..
Powder :: Powder (v. i.) To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily..
Redact :: Redact (v. t.) To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit..
Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc..
Solenoid :: Solenoid (n.) An electrodynamic spiral having the conjuctive wire turned back along its axis, so as to neutralize that component of the effect of the current which is due to the length of the spiral, and reduce the whole effect to that of a series of equal and parallel circular currents. When traversed by a current the solenoid exhibits polarity and attraction or repulsion, like a magnet..
Systematist :: Systematist (n.) One who forms a system, or reduces to system..
Subdued :: Subdue (v. t.) To reduce the intensity or degree of; to tone down; to soften; as, to subdue the brilliancy of colors..
Average :: Average (v. t.) To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean..
Reducent :: Reducent (a.) Tending to reduce.
Territorialize :: Territorialize (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a territory.
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..
Quintessence :: Quintessence (v. t.) To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence.
Chastise :: Chastise (v. t.) To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.
Fuse :: Fuse (v. i.) To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.
Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours..
Dead :: Dead (a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man..
Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination..
Mollify :: Mollify (v. t.) To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground..
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