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- Reduce - n. - To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
- Reduce - n. - To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.
- Reduce - n. - To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
- Reduce - n. - To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.
- Reduce - n. - To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.
- Reduce - n. - To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.
- Reduce - n. - To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.
- Reduce - n. - To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to oxidize.
- Reduce - n. - To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.
- Reduced - imp. & p. p. - of Reduce
- Reducement - n. - Reduction.
- Reducent - a. - Tending to reduce.
- Reducent - n. - A reducent agent.
- Reducer - n. - One who, or that which, reduces.
- Anarchize - v. t. - To reduce to anarchy.
- Unflesh - v. t. - To deprive of flesh; to reduce a skeleton.
- Appease - v. t. - To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst.
- Depress - v. t. - To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
- Formularize - v. t. - To reduce to a forula; to formulate.
- Adjust - v. t. - To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.
- Straighten - v. t. - To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account.
- Disrate - v. t. - To reduce to a lower rating or rank; to degrade.
- Reduce - n. - To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.
- Obtund - v. t. - To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall.
- Beprose - v. t. - To reduce to prose.
- Equate - v. t. - To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances.
- Decivilize - v. t. - To reduce from civilization to a savage state.
- Grade - v. t. - To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.
- Weary - v. t. - To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling.
- Sort - v. t. - To reduce to order from a confused state.
- Territorialize - v. t. - To reduce to the condition of a territory.
- Degrade - v. t. - To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.
- Into - prep. - Indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly.
- Chastise - v. t. - To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.
- Base - a. - To reduce the value of; to debase.
- Alloy - v. t. - To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.
- Neutralize - v. t. - To render neutral; to reduce to a state of neutrality.
- Degrade - v. t. - To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
- Feudalize - v. t. - To reduce toa feudal tenure; to conform to feudalism.
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- H4107 מָהַל - 4107 מָהַל - מָהַל - - mâhal - maw-hal' - a primitive root; properly, to cut down or reduce, i.e. by implication, to adulterate; mixed. - Verb - heb
- H8239 שָׁפַת - 8239 שָׁפַת - שָׁפַת - - shâphath - shaw-fath' - a primitive root; to locate, i.e. (generally) hang on or (figuratively) establish, reduce; bring, ordain, set on. - Verb - heb