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1. 减少；减小；减轻
If you reduce something, you make it smaller in size or amount, or less in degree.
2. 使沦为，使陷入（不好的境地）
If someone is reduced to a weaker or inferior state, they become weaker or inferior as a result of something that happens to them.
3. 迫使;使不得不（做）；使只得
If you say that someone is reduced to doing something, you mean that they have to do it, although it is unpleasant or embarrassing.
4. 使变成;使简化为
If something is changed to a different or less complicated form, you can say that it is reduced to that form.
5. （烹调中）使变浓稠，收汁
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.
6. 境况变差;生活拮据
If you say that someone is living in reduced circumstances, you mean that they do not have as much money as they used to have.
7. 使…无言
If someone or something reduces you to silence, they make you feel so upset or confused that you cannot speak.
8. 使…落泪
If someone or something reduces you to tears, they make you feel so unhappy that you cry.
1. take off weight
Synonym: melt offlose weightslimslenderizethinslim down
2. lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
e.g. cut bourbon
Synonym: dilutethinthin outcut
3. narrow or limit
e.g. reduce the influx of foreigners
Synonym: tighten
4. cook until very little liquid is left
e.g. The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
Synonym: boil downconcentrate
5. be cooked until very little liquid is left
e.g. The sauce should reduce to one cup
Synonym: boil downdecoctconcentrate
6. be the essential element
e.g. 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
e.g. reduce an image
Synonym: scale down
9. reduce in size
reduce physically
e.g. Hot water will shrink the sweater
Can you shrink this image?
Synonym: shrink
10. make less complex
e.g. reduce a problem to a single question
11. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
e.g. The manuscript must be shortened
Synonym: abridgeforeshortenabbreviateshortencutcontract
12. cut down on
make a reduction in
e.g. reduce your daily fat intake
The employer wants to cut back health benefits
Synonym: cut downcut backtrimtrim downtrim backcutbring down
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
e.g. The cells reduce
16. lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
e.g. 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
e.g. reduce one's standard of living
19. bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
e.g. He reduced the population to slavery
20. put down by force or intimidation
e.g. The government quashes any attempt of an uprising
China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently
The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land