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Reluct vs Reduct - What's the difference?

reluct | reduct |

As verbs the difference between reluct and reduct

is that reluct is to be averse to while reduct is (obsolete|transitive) to reduce.

As a noun reduct is

(chemistry) a reducing agent.

reluct

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To be averse to.
  • * {{quote-book, 1639 citation
    • , passage=He was by nature highly passionate, but more apt to reluct at the excesses of it.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1839, title=New Year's Eve, author=Charles Lamb
    • , passage=I care not to be carried with the tide, that smoothly bears human life to eternity; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1879, title=Sermons preached in the church of the first religious society in Roxbury, author=George Putnam
    • , passage=[M]iracles, if you accept them, will not help it very much; or if you reluct at them, and ignore them, your faith remains unshaken and entire.}}

    Derived terms

    *reluctant, reluctance

    reduct

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemistry) A reducing agent.

    • Verb

  • (obsolete) To reduce.
  • (nonstandard) To duct tape again.
  • (nonstandard) To channel through a duct again.

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