| query | If you r_____ something, you make it smaller in size or amount, or less in degree.If you reduce something, you make it smaller in size or amount, or less in degree. It reduces the risks of heart disease. Consumption is being reduced by 25 per cent. The reduced consumer demand is also affecting company profits. |
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| word | reduce |
| full-definition | verb If you reduce something, you make it smaller in size or amount, or less in degree. It reduces the risks of heart disease. Consumption is being reduced by 25 per cent. The reduced consumer demand is also affecting company profits. If someone is reduced to a weaker or inferior state, they become weaker or inferior as a result of something that happens to them. They were reduced to extreme poverty. They wanted the army reduced to a police force. If you say that someone is reduced to doing something, you mean that they have to do it, although it is unpleasant or embarrassing . He was reduced to begging for a living. If something is changed to a different or less complicated form, you can say that it is reduced to that form. All the buildings in the town have been reduced to rubble. Politics has been reduced to class struggle. If you reduce liquid when you are cooking, or if it reduces, it is boiled in order to make it less in quantity and thicker. Boil the liquid in a small saucepan to reduce it by half. Simmer until mixture reduces. |
| inflections | reducesreducingreduced |
| cefr-level | A2 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a2
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