Reduce

(verb.) take off weight.

(verb.) narrow or limit; 'reduce the influx of foreigners'.

(verb.) cook until very little liquid is left; 'The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time'.

(verb.) make smaller; 'reduce an image'.

(verb.) make less complex; 'reduce a problem to a single question'.

(verb.) cut down on; make a reduction in; 'reduce your daily fat intake'; 'The employer wants to cut back health benefits'.

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

(verb.) undergo meiosis; 'The cells reduce'.

(verb.) lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; 'She reduced her niece to a servant' .

(verb.) simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another.

(verb.) lessen and make more modest; 'reduce one's standard of living'.

(verb.) bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; 'He reduced the population to slavery'.

(verb.) destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it.

(verb.) be the essential element; 'The proposal boils down to a compromise'.

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• Does he think to reduce me by long absence? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Some part must be sold to those who are willing to pay less, and the low price which they give for it must reduce the price of the whole. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• This will immediately cut off all loose discourses and declamations, and reduce us to something precise and exact on the present subject. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Hush,' said Sam, swinging himself on to the wall, and crouching there in as small a compass as he could reduce himself to, 'only me, miss, only me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• These chunks are then run through grinding machines, which reduce the chicle to a coarse meal. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Then she ought to take medicines that would reduce--reduce the disease, you know, if you are right, my dear. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• For this reason engineers, wherever possible, level down the steep places, and reduce the strain as far as possible. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• It was now reduced and confined to the original purpose of its institution. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Thus, while the force was reduced nearly one-half, the quantity of product was more than doubled. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The railways reduced this journey for any ordinary traveller to less than forty-eight hours. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Reduced to its barest, crudest terms, the proposition of magnetic separation is simplicity itself. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He was reduced to the verge of despair, when an open door attracted his attention. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I had quite lost my stomach, and was almost reduced to a skeleton. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Wickham of course wanted more than he could get; but at length was reduced to be reasonable. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• As the magnet recedes from the coil, it carries lines of force away with it, this time reducing the number of the lines which cut the coil. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• This original method of reducing the amount of physical labor involved in watch-winding brings to mind another instance of shrewdness mentioned by Edison, with regard to his newsboy days. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Some chemical and other processes for reducing ores have been referred to in the Chapter on Metallurgy. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• These latter rolls were also face-lined with chilled-iron plates; but, unlike the larger ones, were positively driven, reducing the rock to pieces of about one-half-inch size, or smaller. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Reducing my speed I circled and came to the ground at the feet of the astonished Zodangan. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• By reducing the rate of interest, therefore, from ten to five per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But it still remains to elucidate the actual thing done; to reduce it to concrete data, and in reducing, to unfold its colossal dimensions. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This reduces the weight of the gun, and is important to the man who carries it. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Care at this stage reduces the necessity for straightening later. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It restrains the circulation of each particular company within a narrower circle, and reduces their circulating notes to a smaller number. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The ovens are highly insulated with a thick packing of best grade mineral wool, which reduces air leakage to a minimum and retains the heat generated for a long period. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Lydgate was bowing his neck under the yoke like a creature who had talons, but who had Reason too, which often reduces us to meekness. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It is drawn between the cylinders, which reduces the whole to an equal thickness. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The poverty which reduces an Irish girl to rags is impotent to rob the English girl of the neat wardrobe she knows necessary to her self-respect. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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