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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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Qualifier :: Qualifier (n.) One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains..

Blackfeet :: Blackfeet (n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers..

Straighten :: Straighten (v. t.) To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

Quartation :: Quartation (n.) The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold; -- called also inquartation. Compare Parting..

Spall :: Spall (v. t.) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering..

Limekiln :: Limekiln (n.) A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime.

Uncanonize :: Uncanonize (v. t.) To reduce from the rank of a canonized saint.

As :: As (n.) A Roman copper coin, originally of a pound weight (12 oz.); but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic war, to one ounce; and afterwards to half an ounce..

Animalize :: Animalize (v. t.) To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize.

Atomization :: Atomization (n.) The act of reducing to atoms, or very minute particles; or the state of being so reduced..

Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination..

Calcine :: Calcine (v. i.) To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx..

Degrade :: Degrade (v. t.) To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer..

Ruinate :: Ruinate (v. t.) To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to poverty; to ruin.

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To bring down or reduce from a higher to a lower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; to cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope..

Level :: Level (v. t.) To bring to a lower level; to overthrow; to topple down; to reduce to a flat surface; to lower.

Contract :: Contract (v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet..

Codify :: Codify (v. t.) To reduce to a code, as laws..

Humiliation :: Humiliation (n.) The state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission..

Rally :: Rally (v. t.) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite..