REDUCE — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
reduce
Take off weight.
Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture.
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- Cut bourbon.
Narrow or limit.
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- Reduce the influx of foreigners.
Cook until very little liquid is left.
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- The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time.
Be cooked until very little liquid is left.
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- The sauce should reduce to one cup.
Be the essential element.
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- The proposal boils down to a compromise.
To remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons.
Make smaller.
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- Reduce an image.
Reduce in size; reduce physically.
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- Hot water will shrink the sweater.
- Can you shrink this image?
Make less complex.
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- Reduce a problem to a single question.
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.
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- The manuscript must be shortened.
Cut down on; make a reduction in.
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- Reduce your daily fat intake.
- The employer wants to cut back health benefits.
Reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site.
Undergo meiosis.
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- The cells reduce.
Lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation.
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- She reduced her niece to a servant.
Simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another.
Lessen and make more modest.
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- Reduce one's standard of living.
Bring to humbler or weaker state or condition.
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- He reduced the population to slavery.
Put down by force or intimidation.
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- The government quashes any attempt of an uprising.
- China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently.
- The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land.
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