REDUCE

Cut down on; make a reduction in

Example: "Reduce your daily fat intake"

• bring down
• cut  5
• cut back
• cut down
• trim  6
• trim back
• trim down

• decrease  11
• lessen  6
• minify  14

• shorten  10
• spill  7
• quench  20
• retrench  13
• • slash  8
  • thin out
  • thin  7
  • detract  10
  • deflate  11
  • inflate  10
  • downsize  21
  • subtract  12
  • knock off
  • shave  11
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Make less complex

Example: "Reduce a problem to a single question"

• simplify  18

• abbreviate  17

Bring to humbler or weaker state or condition

Example: "He reduced the population to slavery"

Simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another

Lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation

Example: "She reduced her niece to a servant"

Be the essential element

Example: "The proposal boils down to a compromise"

• boil down
• come down

Reduce in size; reduce physically

Example: "Hot water will shrink the sweater"

• shrink  13

• decrease  11
• lessen  6
• minify  14

• reduce  9
• scale down
• reef  7
• miniaturise  13
• • miniaturize  22
  • depopulate  15
  • desolate  9
  • downsize  21
  • contract  12
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Lessen and make more modest

Example: "Reduce one's standard of living"

Make smaller

Example: "Reduce an image"

• scale down

• blow up

To remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons

• deoxidise  18
• deoxidize  27

• change  12

• benficiate
• pole  6

Narrow or limit

Example: "Reduce the influx of foreigners"

• tighten  11

Put down by force or intimidation

Example: "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"

• keep down
• quash  17
• repress  9
• subdue  9
• subjugate  19

Undergo meiosis

Example: "The cells reduce"

Reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site

Destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it

• de-emphasise
• de-emphasize
• destress

• obscure  11

Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

Example: "The manuscript must be shortened"

• abbreviate  17
• abridge  11
• contract  12
• cut  5
• foreshorten  17
• shorten  10

• decrease  11
• lessen  6
• minify  14

• bowdlerise  16
• bowdlerize  25
• castrate  10
• expurgate  19
• • shorten  10
  • concentrate  15
  • condense  11
  • digest  8
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Be cooked until very little liquid is left

Example: "The sauce should reduce to one cup"

• boil down
• concentrate  15
• decoct  11

Cook until very little liquid is left

Example: "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"

• boil down
• concentrate  15

Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

Example: "Cut bourbon"

• cut  5
• dilute  7
• thin  7
• thin out

• weaken  13

• water down

Take off weight

• melt off
• slenderize  20
• slim  6
• slim down
• thin  7

• change state
• turn  4

• sweat off

• gain  5