Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to reduce
Participle: reduced
Gerund: reducing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | reduce |
| you | reduce |
| he;she;it | reduces |
| we | reduce |
| you | reduce |
| they | reduce |
Perfect
| I | have reduced |
| you | have reduced |
| he;she;it | has reduced |
| we | have reduced |
| you | have reduced |
| they | have reduced |
Past
| I | reduced |
| you | reduced |
| he;she;it | reduced |
| we | reduced |
| you | reduced |
| they | reduced |
Pluperfect
| I | had reduced |
| you | had reduced |
| he;she;it | had reduced |
| we | had reduced |
| you | had reduced |
| they | had reduced |
Future
| I | will reduce |
| you | will reduce |
| he;she;it | will reduce |
| we | will reduce |
| you | will reduce |
| they | will reduce |
Future Perfect
| I | will have reduced |
| you | will have reduced |
| he;she;it | will have reduced |
| we | will have reduced |
| you | will have reduced |
| they | will have reduced |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | reduce |
| you | reduce |
| he;she;it | reduce |
| we | reduce |
| you | reduce |
| they | reduce |
Perfect
| I | have reduced |
| you | have reduced |
| he;she;it | have reduced |
| we | have reduced |
| you | have reduced |
| they | have reduced |
Imperfect
| I | reduced |
| you | reduced |
| he;she;it | reduced |
| we | reduced |
| you | reduced |
| they | reduced |
Pluperfect
| I | had reduced |
| you | had reduced |
| he;she;it | had reduced |
| we | had reduced |
| you | had reduced |
| they | had reduced |
Conditional
Present
| I | would reduce |
| you | would reduce |
| he;she;it | would reduce |
| we | would reduce |
| you | would reduce |
| they | would reduce |
Perfect
| I | would have reduced |
| you | would have reduced |
| he;she;it | would have reduced |
| we | would have reduced |
| you | would have reduced |
| they | would have reduced |
Imperative
| you | reduce |
| we | Let's reduce |
| you | reduce |
Verbs conjugated like 'reduce'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'reduce'
deduce,
educe,
reduct,
seduce,
abduce,
adduce,
beduck,
beduke,
deduct,
dedupe,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- cooking
- thicken
- intransitive: decrease in value
- lessen, lower
- to become smaller
- decrease, diminish, drop, fall, go down, lessen, shrink, sink
- to make smaller
- abate, cut, decrease, decrement, diminish, foreshorten, lessen, lower
- To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
- thicken
- lessen
- diminish, decrease, abridge, abate, attenuate, contract, retrench, curtail
- defeat
- conquer, overpower, overcome, subdue, suppress, depose, overthrow, subjugate
- degrade
- debase, humiliate, lower, depress, abase, cut, clip
Antonyms
- of a quantity, etc: to increase
- decrease, drop, fall, go down, rise
- to grow in magnitude, quantity or extent; to become larger
- decrease, lessen, increase
- lessen
- increase, intensify, strengthen, heighten
- defeat
- conquest, success, mastery, advantage
Additional Information
Etymology
1. c.1375, "bring back," from O.Fr.
reducer (14c.), from L.
reducere, from
re- "back" +
ducere "bring, lead" (see duke). Sense of "to lower, diminish, lessen" is from 1787. Etymological sense preserved in military
reduce to ranks (1641).
Reduction is attested from 1483;
reductionism in philosophy is recorded from 1948.
2. From Middle English reducen, from Old French reduire, from Latin redūcō (“reduce”); from re- (“back”) + dūcō (“lead”). See duke, and compare with redoubt. See: Old French '
reduire', Latin '
redūcō'.
Verbs referencing "reduce"
Finnish with old forms
redusoida.
Sample Sentences
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[...] the moral effects of her wretched state soon began to appear. Those who cannot be enlightened by reason, can only be controlled by force; and this, coupled with her great privations, must soon have reduced her to a worse condition than that of the beasts that perish, but for timely and unhoped-for aid.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] dealing with his charges, I have just described. At every meal, moral influence alone restrains the more violent among them from cutting the throats of the rest; but the effect of that influence is reduced to an absolute certainty, and is found, even as a means of restraint, to say nothing of it as a means of cure, a hundred times more efficacious than all the strait-waistcoats, fetters, and [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] plain and simple, as it ought to be, but arranged with a view to peace and comfort. It costs no more than any other plan of arrangement, but it speaks an amount of consideration for those who are reduced to seek a shelter there, which puts them at once upon their gratitude and good behaviour. Instead of being parcelled out in great, long, rambling wards, where a certain amount of weazen life may [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The Senate is a dignified and decorous body, and its proceedings are conducted with much gravity and order. Both houses are handsomely carpeted; but the state to which these carpets are reduced by the universal disregard of the spittoon with which every honourable member is accommodated, and the extraordinary improvements on the pattern which are squirted and dabbled upon it in every [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and beyond that, another bank, close before us. So he stops short: cries (to the horses again ) ‘Easy. Easy den. Ease. Steady. Hi. Jiddy. Pill. Ally. Loo, ’ but never ‘Lee ! ’ until we are reduced to the very last extremity, and are in the midst of difficulties, extrication from which appears to be all but impossible.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] here a couple of days I bound myself to a rigid adherence to the plan I had laid down so recently, and resolved to set forward on our western journey without any more delay. Accordingly, having reduced the luggage within the smallest possible compass (by sending back to New York, to be afterwards forwarded to us in Canada, so much of it as was not absolutely wanted ); and having procured the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Humbug ! We are not quite reduced to that yet. Alfred who is as determined a despot as ever walked, does not pretend to this kind of defence; — no, he stands, high and haughty, on that good old respectable ground, _the right of the [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Immobility accelerates greatly reduces hypothermia,
(Who)