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        "From Middle English reducen, from Old French reducer, from Latin redūcō (“reduce”); from re- (“back”) + dūcō (“lead”). See duke, and compare with redoubt."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.\nto reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.\n2012 January 1,  Stephen Ledoux,  “Behaviorism at 100”, in  American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, page 60:Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.\n2022 January 12,  Paul Clifton,  “Network News: Emergency timetables as absences surge due to COVID”, in  RAIL, number 948, page 6:Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID."
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              "mean": "(intransitive) To lose weight."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.\nto reduce a sergeant to the ranks\n1815 February 24,  ,  Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. , volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh:    James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and Archibald Constable and Co., , →OCLC:My father, the eldest son of an ancient but reduced family, left me with little.\na. 1694, John Tillotson, The Folly of Scoffing at Religion\nnothing so excellent but a man may falten upon something or other belonging to it whereby to reduce it .\n1671,  John Milton,  “Samson Agonistes, ”, in  Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London:    J. M for John Starkey , →OCLC:Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears.\n1850,  Nathaniel Hawthorne,  chapter 13, in  The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced.\n1992,  Rudolf M Schuster,  The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:Neither    nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our \"science\" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish \"priority.\""
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              "mean": "(transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.\nto reduce a province or a fort"
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              "mean": "(transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.\nto reduce a city to ashes"
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              "mean": "(transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.\n2011, Edward Behr and James MacGuire, The Art of Eating Cookbook: Essential Recipes from the First 25 Years.\nServe the oxtails with mustard or a sauce made by reducing the soup, if any is left, to a slightly thick sauce."
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              "mean": "(transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.\nFormaldehyde can be reduced to form methanol."
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              "mean": "(transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter."
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              "mean": "(transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value."
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              "mean": "(transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm."
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              "mean": "(transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form."
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              "mean": "(transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as \"reduce to writing\".)\nIt is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing."
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              "mean": "(transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment."
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              "mean": "(transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square)."
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              "mean": "(transitive, military) To strike off the payroll."
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              "mean": "(transitive, Scotland, law) To annul by legal means."
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              "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).\na book reduced into English"
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