Synonyms and Antonyms of reduce

synonym (synonym of reduce)

antonym (antonym of reduce)

hypernym (reduce IS A KIND OF .... relation)

  • be cooked until very little liquid is left (verb.change)
    decrease, diminish, fall, lessen
    decrease in size, extent, or range (verb.change)
     
  • be the essential element (verb.change)
    become, turn
    undergo a change or development (verb.stative)
     
  • bring to humbler or weaker state or condition (verb.social)
    break, bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate
    assign to a lower position; reduce in rank (verb.social)
     
  • cook until very little liquid is left (verb.change)
    decrease, lessen, minify
    make smaller (verb.contact)
     
  • destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it (verb.change)
    de-emphasise, de-emphasize, destress
    reduce the emphasis (verb.change)
     
  • lessen and make more modest (verb.possession)
    impoverish
    make poor (verb.possession)
     
  • lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture (verb.change)
    weaken
    lessen the strength of (verb.change)
     
  • lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation (verb.emotion)
    degrade, demean, disgrace, put down, take down
    reduce in worth or character, usually verbally (verb.emotion)
     
  • make less complex (verb.change)
    simplify
    make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent (verb.change)
     
  • make smaller (verb.change)
    reduce, shrink
    reduce in size; reduce physically (verb.change)
     
  • narrow or limit (verb.change)
    bound, confine, limit, restrain, restrict, throttle, trammel
    place limits on (extent or access) (verb.change)
     
  • put down by force or intimidation (verb.social)
    crush, oppress, suppress
    come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority (verb.social)
     
  • reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site (verb.contact)
    reposition
    place into another position (verb.contact)
     
  • simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another (verb.possession)
    exchange, interchange, replace, substitute
    put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items (verb.possession)
     
  • take off weight (verb.body)
    change state, turn
    undergo a transformation or a change of position or action (verb.change)
     
  • 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 (verb.change)
    change
    undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature (verb.change)
     
  • undergo meiosis (verb.contact)
    divide, part, separate
    come apart (verb.motion)
     

hyponym (.... IS A KIND OF reduce relation)

  • cut down on; make a reduction in (verb.change)
    shorten
    make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    spill
    reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail) (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    quench
    reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    retrench
    make a reduction, as in one's workforce (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    slash
    cut drastically (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    thin out
    make sparse (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    thin
    make thin or thinner (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    detract, take away
    take away a part from; diminish (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    deflate
    reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    inflate
    increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    subtract
    take off or away (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.possession)
    knock off, shave
    cut the price of (verb.possession)
     
  • destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it (verb.change)
    obscure
    reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa (verb.change)
     
  • lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture (verb.change)
    water down
    make less strong or intense (verb.change)
     
  • make less complex (verb.change)
    abbreviate
    shorten (verb.change)
     
  • reduce in scope while retaining essential elements (verb.change)
    bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten
    edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    concentrate, condense, digest
    make more concise (verb.change)
     
  • reduce in size; reduce physically (verb.change)
    reduce, scale down
    make smaller (verb.contact)
     
  • (verb.change)
    reef
    reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    miniaturise, miniaturize
    design or construct on a smaller scale (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    depopulate, desolate
    reduce in population (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    downsize
    make in a smaller size (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.contact)
    contract
    make smaller (verb.contact)
     
  • take off weight (verb.body)
    sweat off
    lose weight by sweating (verb.body)
     
  • 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 (verb.change)
    benficiate
    subject to a reduction process (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    pole
    deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole (verb.change)
     

cause (cause to relations of reduce)

  • reduce in size; reduce physically (verb.change)
    contract, shrink
    become smaller or draw together (verb.change)
     

verb group (reduce is verb group of ....)

  • cut down on; make a reduction in (verb.change)
    cut
    have a reducing effect (verb.change)
     
  • reduce in scope while retaining essential elements (verb.change)
    cut, edit, edit out
    cut and assemble the components of (verb.change)
     

derivation (.... is derived from reduce)

  • be the essential element (verb.change)
    reducible
    capable of being reduced (adj.all)
     
  • cook until very little liquid is left (verb.change)
    concentration
    strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.food)
    concentrate
    a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water (noun.food)
     
  • cut down on; make a reduction in (verb.change)
    cutback
    a reduction in quantity or rate (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.act)
    clipping, trim, trimming
    cutting down to the desired size or shape (noun.act)
     
  • (adj.all)
    reductive
    characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment (adj.all)
     
  • lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture (verb.change)
    dilution
    weakening (reducing the concentration) by the addition of water or a thinner (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.act)
    cutting, thinning
    the act of diluting something (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.substance)
    diluent, dilutant, thinner
    a diluting agent (noun.substance)
     
  • make less complex (verb.change)
    reduction, simplification
    the act of reducing complexity (noun.act)
     
  • make smaller (verb.change)
    decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down
    the act of decreasing or reducing something (noun.act)
     
  • put down by force or intimidation (verb.social)
    repression
    the act of repressing; control by holding down (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.person)
    overcomer, subduer, surmounter
    someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion (noun.person)
     
  • (adj.all)
    inhibitory, repressing, repressive
    restrictive of action (adj.all)
     
  • reduce in scope while retaining essential elements (verb.change)
    contraction
    the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.communication)
    abridgement, abridgment, capsule, condensation
    a shortened version of a written work (noun.communication)
     
  • (noun.object)
    shortener
    any agent that shortens (noun.object)
     
  • (noun.person)
    abbreviator, abridger
    one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work (noun.person)
     
  • reduce in size; reduce physically (verb.change)
    shrinkage, shrinking
    process or result of becoming less or smaller (noun.event)
     
  • take off weight (verb.body)
    reducing
    loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer (noun.process)
     
  • 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 (verb.change)
    reducing, reduction
    any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the r more.. (noun.process)
     
  • (noun.substance)
    reducer, reducing agent, reductant
    a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a nega more.. (noun.substance)
     

domain category (reduce is domain category of ....)

  • cook until very little liquid is left (verb.change)
    cookery, cooking, preparation
    the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat (noun.act)
     
  • destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it (verb.change)
    linguistics
    the scientific study of language (noun.cognition)
     
  • simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another (verb.possession)
    math, mathematics, maths
    a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement (noun.cognition)
     
  • 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 (verb.change)
    chemical science, chemistry
    the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions (noun.cognition)
     
synonym antonym hypernym hyponym cause verb group derivation bring down cut boil down come down shrink contract gain put on oxidate blow up enlarge magnify change state turn weaken bound decrease lessen sweat off water down benficiate pole scale down contract shrink cut edit edit out reducing dilution cutting thinning diluent dilutant
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