reduced
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- v cut down on; make a reduction in
- v make less complex
- v bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
He reduced the population to slavery - v simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- v lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
She reduced her niece to a servant - v be the essential element
- v reduce in size; reduce physically
- v lessen and make more modest
- v make smaller
- v 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
- v narrow or limit
- v put down by force or intimidation
- v undergo meiosis
- v reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- v destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- v reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- v be cooked until very little liquid is left
- v cook until very little liquid is left
The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time - v lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- v take off weight
- a made less in size or amount or degree
- s well below normal (especially in price)
- As a British statesman, she broke the power of the unions, which were ruining the economy, she reduced the state sector by privatizing most of the nationalized industries, which .
- When without loss of blood he reduced Czechoslovakia to a German puppet state, forced a drastic revision of Europe's defensive alliances, and won a free hand for himself in .
- German steel production was to be reduced from over 20,000,000 tons a year to 5,800,000.