reduced
Meaning of reduced
verb
- To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
- To lose weight.
- To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced.
- 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
- To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
- To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
- To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
- To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- To reform a line or column from (a square).
- To strike off the payroll.
- To annul by legal means.
- To translate (a book, document, etc.).
a book reduced into English
- Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.
the reduced prices in a summer sale
- Discounted in price.
the reduced goods at the sale
- Of a sauce etc.: made more concentrated.
The chicken was served in a reduced red wine sauce.
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Hyphenation of reduced
re-duced
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- reduced is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
reduced synonyms
Meaning decreased:
Meaning :
inspissate, cut, decrease, lower
reduced antonyms
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Anagrams of reduced
Words that rhyme with reduced
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