Definition of reduce

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Reduce (n.) To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

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Enslave :: Enslave (v. t.) To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.
Resolve :: Resolve (v. i.) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle..
Mash :: Mash (v. t.) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort..
Systematist :: Systematist (n.) One who forms a system, or reduces to system..
Beneficiate :: Beneficiate (v. t.) To reduce (ores).
Ice :: Ice (n.) Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4ยก C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats..
Lower :: Lower (a.) To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret..
Subdued :: Subdue (v. t.) To reduce the intensity or degree of; to tone down; to soften; as, to subdue the brilliancy of colors..
Incompressible :: Incompressible (a.) Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible..
Qualifier :: Qualifier (n.) One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains..
Truss :: Truss (n.) A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes..
Levigate :: Levigate (v. t.) To free from grit; to reduce to an impalpable powder or paste.
Chip :: Chip (v. t.) To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew..
Temperament :: Temperament (v. t.) A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenienc
Inthrall :: Inthrall (v. t.) To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave..
Territorialize :: Territorialize (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a territory.
Flatten :: Flatten (a.) To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
Depopulate :: Depopulate (v. t.) To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople..
Impoverish :: Impoverish (v. t.) To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families..
Matte :: Matte (n.) A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color..
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