Fallen vs Reduce - What's the difference?
fallen | reduce |
having dropped by the force of gravity
(literary) killed in battle
having lost one's chastity
having collapsed
(pluralonly) The dead
(pluralonly) Casualties of battle or war.
(countable, Christianity) One who has fallen, as from grace.
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To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
* to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
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, author=Stephen Ledoux
, title=Behaviorism at 100
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To lose weight.
To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
* to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
* An ancient but reduced family. --.
* Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. --.
* Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears. -- .
* Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced . --.
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To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
* to reduce a province or a fort
To bring to an inferior state or condition.
* to reduce a city to ashes
(cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
(chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
(metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
(mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
(legal) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").
* It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
(medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
(military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
As a noun fallen
is .As a verb reduce is
to bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.fallen
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- fallen raindrops
- to honor fallen soldiers
- a fallen woman
- a fallen building
Synonyms
* (having collapsed): collapsedDerived terms
* chap-fallen, chapfallen * chop-fallen, chopfallen * crest-fallen, crestfallen * down-fallen, downfallen * fallen angel * fallen arch * fallen building clause * fallen flag * fallen fleece * fallen-in * fallen instep * fallenness * fallen-off * fallen star * fallen woman * heaven-fallen * how are the mighty fallen * infallen * jaw-fallen * new-fallen * root-fallen * sick-fallen * stitchfallen * trade-fallen * unfallen * wind-fallen, windfallenNoun
(fallen)reduce
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- Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."