v. take off weight

v. lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"

v. narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"

v. cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"

v. be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"

v. 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

v. make smaller; "reduce an image"

v. reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"

v. destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it

v. reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site

v. undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"

v. lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"

v. simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another

v. lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"

v. bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"

v. put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"