Definition of reduce

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Reduce (n.) To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort..

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Smelt :: Smelt (v. i.) To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin..
Unmould :: Unmould (v. t.) To change the form of; to reduce from any form.
Condense :: Condense (v. i.) To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.
Totalize :: Totalize (v. t.) To make total, or complete;to reduce to completeness..
Diminish :: Diminish (v. t.) To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
Beggar :: Beggar (v. t.) To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself..
Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
Qualify :: Qualify (v. t.) To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement, claim, or proposition..
Impoverish :: Impoverish (v. t.) To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families..
Incondensible :: Incondensible (a.) Not condensable; incapable of being made more dense or compact, or reduced to liquid form..
Abase :: Abase (a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade..
Throttle :: Throttle (v. t.) To shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an engine..
Unflesh :: Unflesh (v. t.) To deprive of flesh; to reduce a skeleton.
Negative :: Negative (n.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture..
Subdue :: Subdue (v. t.) To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish..
Silence :: Silence (n.) The cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence..
Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt..
Affeer :: Affeer (v. t.) To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum..
Fetch :: Fetch (v. t.) To reduce; to throw.
Into :: Into (prep.) Indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits
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