Word Meanings - REDUCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from

Additional info about word: REDUCE

To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to Ant: oxidize. (more info) 1. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. And to his brother's house reduced his wife. Chapman. The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us. Evelyn. 2. To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat. "An ancient but reduced family." Sir W. Scott. Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. Tillotson. Having reduced Their foe to misery beneath their fears. Milton. Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. Hawthorne. 3. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort. 4. 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. It were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust. Milton. 5. To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules. 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. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REDUCE)

• Abase
• Degrade
• disgrace
• bring low
• reduce
• humble
• demean
• stoop
• humiliate
• depress
• lower
• sink
• dishonor
• Abate
• Terminate
• remove
• suppress
• mitigate
• diminish
• moderate
• lessen
• subside
• decrease
• Abbreviate
• Shorten
• abridge
• contract
• curtail
• epitomize
• condense
• prune
• compress
• Attenuate
• Educe
• elongate
• fine-drawn
• narrow
• Bereave
• Rob
• deprive
• divest
• dispossess
• impoverish
• spoil
• strip

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REDUCE)

• Expand
• amplify
• dilate
• elongate
• reverse
• cancel
• abandon
• Increase
• grow
• expand
• augment
• extend
• enlarge
• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• increase
• aggrandize
• elevate

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• BROKERY
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• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• BRAZIL NUT
  An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell.
• BRAST
  To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• BROID
  To braid. Chaucer.
• BROIDERER
  One who embroiders.
• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• NARROW
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• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• BRAWNER
  A boor killed for the table.
• BRACHIOGANOID
  One of the Brachioganoidei.
• BRITANNIC
  Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
• BREATHE
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• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• WILLOWER
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• OPPROBRIOUS
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• CREBRICOSTATE
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• TECTIBRANCHIA
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