Definition of reduce

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Reduce (n.) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours..

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Neutralize :: Neutralize (v. t.) To render neutral; to reduce to a state of neutrality.
Resolve :: Resolve (v. i.) To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve..
Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc..
Indiglucin :: Indiglucin (n.) The variety of sugar (glucose) obtained from the glucoside indican. It is unfermentable, but reduces Fehling's solution..
Under :: Under (adv.) In a lower, subject, or subordinate condition; in subjection; -- used chiefly in a few idiomatic phrases; as, to bring under, to reduce to subjection; to subdue; to keep under, to keep in subjection; to control; to go under, to be unsuccessful; to fail..
Iron :: Iron (n.) The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite, magnetite, etc.), or a hydrous oxide (as limonite, turgite, etc.). It is reduced on an enormous scale in three principal forms; viz., cast iron, steel, and wrought iron. Iron usually appears dark brown, from oxidation or impurity, but when pure, or on a fresh surface, is a gray or white metal. It is easily oxidized (rusted) by moisture, and is attacked b
Levigate :: Levigate (v. t.) To free from grit; to reduce to an impalpable powder or paste.
Appall :: Appall (a.) To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight..
Reduction :: Reduction (n.) The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t..
Bethrall :: Bethrall (v. t.) To reduce to thralldom; to inthrall.
Sink :: Sink (v. t.) To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
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 4¡ C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats..
Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp..
Square :: Square (n.) To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard..
Coracoid :: Coracoid (a.) Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals..
Incremate :: Incremate (v. t.) To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate..
Affeer :: Affeer (v. t.) To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum..
Depopulate :: Depopulate (v. t.) To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople..
Fuse :: Fuse (v. i.) To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.
Incinerate :: Incinerate () Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
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