reduces English
Verb
(head)
(reduce)
Anagrams
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reduce English
Verb
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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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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- 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."
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).
Related terms
* reducible
* reductase
* reduction
* reductive
Synonyms
* (to bring down) cut, decrease, lower
Antonyms
* (to bring down) increase
See also
* reducing agent
References
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lowers English
Verb
(head)
(lower)
Anagrams
*
*
*
lower English
Etymology 1
From (low) +
Adjective
(head)
(low)
bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object
(geology, of strata or geological time periods) older
Antonyms
* (more low) higher
* (bottom) upper
* (older) upper
Adverb
(head)
Verb
( en verb)
To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
- lower a bucket into a well
- to lower a sail of a boat
to pull down
- to lower a flag
- Lowered softly with a threefold cord of love / Down to a silent grave. .
To reduce the height of
- lower a fence or wall
- lower a chimney or turret
To depress as to direction
- lower the aim of a gun
To make less elevated
- to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes
To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- lower the temperature
- lower one's vitality
- lower distilled liquors
To bring down; to humble
- lower one's pride
(reflexive) (lower oneself ) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes.
To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- lower the price of goods
- lower the interest rate
To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
- The river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
To decrease in value, amount, etc.
Synonyms
* bring down
* shorten
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* reduce
* reduce, turn down
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* be humble
* cut, reduce
* die off, drop, fall, fall off, shrink
* become/get smaller, become/get lower, lessen, reduce
Etymology 2
Related terms
* glower
* loweringly
Statistics
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