Reduce: alternatives and connections

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Common in business and journalism; usually less formal than reduce.

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To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to e…

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To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to e…

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To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.

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To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.

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To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

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To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.

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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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To reduce from an inflated condition.

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To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman,…

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To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople.

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Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.

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To take away; to withdraw.

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To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

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To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.

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Blown in; inflated.

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Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim.

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A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.

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To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to que…

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A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water. See Coral reefs, under Coral.

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To cut off; to pare away.

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obs. p. p. of Shave.

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To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

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To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

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A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

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To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.

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Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

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of Become

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

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To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…

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To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as…

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To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman,…

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To manage; to conduct; to treat.

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To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

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The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.

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To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

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The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.

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To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly…

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To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, ran…

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That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.

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To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.

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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

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To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.

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The act of repositing; a laying up.

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Restricted.

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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.

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To make simple; to make less complex; to make clear by giving the explanation for; to show an easier or shorter process for doing or making.

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One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else

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To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

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The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.

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A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weak…

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To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

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To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

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The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.

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The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.

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Capable of being reduced.

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Capable of being reduced.

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The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder…

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The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder…

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One who, or that which, shortens.

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One who, or that which, shortens.

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The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.

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The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.

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of Shrink

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One who thins, or makes thinner.

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One who thins, or makes thinner.

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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.

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To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

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To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

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To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.

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To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.

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To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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of Cut

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To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.

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To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an oxide.

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To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.

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To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

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Same as Squash.

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To press again.

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To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

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To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.

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Worthless; bad.

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To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.

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To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another;…

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Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

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To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

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To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

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To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as…

Reduce is usually transitive and focuses on causing something to become smaller.

To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, ran…

Natural for pain, concern, impact and severity; slightly less technical than reduce.

To bend or curve

Use when the aim is limitation rather than simply making a quantity smaller.

To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

Useful when the reduction concerns effect, influence, significance or intensity.

To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or…

Use for risk, harm, impact or damage; it does not mean reduce every kind of quantity.