reduce

Verb

• take off weight

• lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
  • cut bourbon
    

• cook until very little liquid is left
  • The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
    

• be cooked until very little liquid is left
  • The sauce should reduce to one cup
    

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
  • The manuscript must be shortened
    

• destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it

• reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site

• undergo meiosis
  • The cells reduce
    

• put down by force or intimidation
  • The government quashes any attempt of an uprising
    
  • China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently
    
  • The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land
    

• narrow or limit
  • reduce the influx of foreigners
    

• 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
  • reduce an image
    

• lessen and make more modest
  • reduce one's standard of living
    

• reduce in size; reduce physically
  • Hot water will shrink the sweater
    
  • Can you shrink this image?
    

• be the essential element
  • The proposal boils down to a compromise
    

• lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
  • She reduced her niece to a servant
    

• simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another

• bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
  • He reduced the population to slavery
    

• make less complex
  • reduce a problem to a single question
    

• cut down on; make a reduction in
  • reduce your daily fat intake
    
  • The employer wants to cut back health benefits
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  melt off , lose weight , slim , slenderize , thin , slim down , dilute , thin out , cut , boil down , concentrate , decoct , abridge , foreshorten , abbreviate , shorten , contract , repress , quash , keep down , subdue , subjugate , tighten , deoxidize , deoxidise , scale down , shrink , come down , cut down ,
• Antonyms: 
  gain , put on , elaborate , lucubrate , expatiate , exposit , enlarge , flesh out , expand , expound , dilate , oxidize , oxidise , oxidate , blow up , magnify