Definitions:

1. be cooked until very little liquid is left verb
   • The sauce should reduce to one cup
2. bring to humbler or weaker state or condition verb
   • The dictator reduced the population to slavery in a matter of years.
3. cook until very little liquid is left verb
   • The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
4. lessen and make more modest verb
   • reduce one's standard of living
5. lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation verb
   • They reduced their children to servants.
6. make less complex verb
   • reduce a problem to a single question
7. make smaller verb
   • reduce an image
8. narrow or limit verb
   • reduce the influx of foreigners
9. reduce in size verb
   • reduce physically
10. undergo meiosis verb
    • The cells reduce

Synonyms:

• boil down
• come down
• concentrate
• contract
• cut
• decrease
• deoxidise
• deoxidize
• keep down
• quash
• repress
• shrink
• subdue
• subjugate
• thin
• tighten

NearBy Words:

• reduced
• reducer