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reduce

გამოთქმა: /rɪˈdjuːs/

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  • 1make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:the need for businesses to reduce costs the workforce has been reduced to some 6,100
  • [no object] become smaller or less in size, amount, or degree:the number of priority homeless cases has reduced slightly
  • boil (a sauce or other liquid) in cooking so that it becomes thicker and more concentrated: increase the heat and reduce the liquid
  • [no object] chiefly North American (of a person) lose weight, typically by dieting:by May she had reduced to 9 stone
  • Photography make (a negative or print) less dense.
  • Phonetics articulate (a speech sound) in a way requiring less muscular effort, giving rise in vowels to a more central articulatory position.
  • 2 (reduce someone/thing to) bring someone or something to (a worse or less desirable state or condition):she has been reduced to near poverty the church was reduced to rubble
  • (be reduced to doing something) be forced by difficult circumstances into doing something desperate:ordinary soldiers are reduced to begging
  • make someone helpless with (shock, anguish, or amusement):Olga was reduced to stunned silence
  • force someone into (obedience or submission):he reduced his grandees to due obedience
  • 3 (reduce something to) change a substance to (a different or more basic form):it is difficult to understand how lava could have been reduced to dust
  • present a problem or subject in (a simplified form):he reduces unimaginable statistics to manageable proportions
  • convert a fraction to (the form with the lowest terms).
  • 4 Chemistry cause to combine chemically with hydrogen: hydrogen for reducing the carbon dioxide
  • undergo or cause to undergo a reaction in which electrons are gained from another substance or molecule: [no object]:this compound reduces to potassium chloride [with object]:the arsenic is reduced to the trivalent conditionThe opposite of oxidize.
  • 5restore (a dislocated part of the body) to its proper position by manipulation or surgery: Joe’s reducing a dislocated thumb
  • 6 archaic besiege and capture (a town or fortress).

reduced circumstances

used euphemistically to refer to the state of being poor after being relatively wealthy:a divorcee living in reduced circumstances

reduce someone to the ranks

demote a non-commissioned officer to an ordinary soldier: the platoon consisted of ex-NCOs who had been reduced to the ranks for various offences

reducer

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