reduce
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
Đồng nghĩa: cut, decrease, lower, abase, abate, belittle, besmall, bring down, embase, cut, decrease, decrement, diminish, foreshorten, lessen, lilliputianize, lower, mince, minimize, reduce, shrink, smallify
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(intransitive)To lose weight.
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(transitive)To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
Đồng nghĩa: disparage, humble, relegate, sink, abase, bring down to size, cut down to size, debase, defame, degrade, demean, demote, depress, discredit, disgrace, dishonour, disparage, downgrade, embase, give a bad name, humble, humiliate, knock down to size, put someone in their place, reduce, relegate, sink, slur, trim down to size, whittle down to size
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(transitive)To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
to reduce a province or a fort
Đồng nghĩa: overcome, surmount, vanquish, beat, bring down, convince, chew up, eat someone for breakfast, eat someone's lunch, flog, humble, kick ass, malavogue, murdelize, outfox, outguess, outrun, outsmart, outwit, overcome, overpower, overwin, own, pulverise, pwn, rape, reduce, spank, steal the show, subdue, subvert, surmount, thrash, trounce, vanquish
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(transitive)To bring to an inferior state or condition.
to reduce a city to ashes
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(transitive)To be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy).
reduced to silence
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(transitive)(transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.
Đồng nghĩa: inspissate, condense, engross, incrassate, inspissate, reduce, thick, thicken
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(transitive)(transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
Formaldehyde can be reduced to form methanol.
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(transitive)(transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
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(transitive)(transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
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(transitive)(transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
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(transitive)(transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
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ine-pro From Middle English reducen, from Old French reduire, from Latin redūcō (reduce); from re- (back) + dūcō (lead). See duke, and compare with redoubt.