REDUCE

Verb

1. take off weight
2. lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
3. narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"
4. cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
5. be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
6. be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
7. 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
8. make smaller; "reduce an image"
9. reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
10. make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
11. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
12. cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
13. destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
14. reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
15. undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"
16. lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"
17. simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
18. lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"
19. bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
20. 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"