lessen suggests a decline in amount rather than in number. diminish emphasizes a perceptible loss and implies its subtraction from a total. reduce implies a bringing down or lowering. abate …

Definition of reduce verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [transitive, intransitive] to make something less or smaller in size, quantity, price, etc.; to become less or smaller in …

Reduce the sauce by boiling for five minutes. Simmer until the liquid has reduced by about one third.

If you say that someone is reduced to doing something, you mean that they have to do it, although it is unpleasant or embarrassing.

To bring to a specified undesirable state, as of weakness or helplessness: disease that reduced the patient to emaciation; teasing that reduced the child to tears.

REDUCE definition: to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.. See examples of reduce used in a sentence.

THESAURUS to reduce prices, numbers, or amounts reduce to make the price, amount, or size of something less or smaller The price was reduced by 50%.

Reduced mass In physics, reduced mass is a measure of the effective inertial mass of a system with two or more particles when the particles are interacting with each other. Reduced mass …

To reduce something is to make it smaller or lessen it in some way. Therefore, anything reduced is smaller than it was before. If you’re pedaling your way through Italy and hit a giant hill, you’ll …

REDUCE meaning: 1 : to make (something) smaller in size, amount, number, etc. decrease; 2 : to cause (someone) to be in a specified state or condition + to