v
To decrease in amount or size.
v
To lighten; to reduce in weight or heaviness.
v
(intransitive) To become less excited, intense, or angry.
v
(transitive) To cause something to collapse.
n
A reduction of some sort in an existing program or service.
v
To decrease in intensity or magnitude.
v
(transitive) To reduce the velocity of something.
v
(intransitive, informal) To relax.
v
(intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
n
A reduction in the intensity of one's physical training, as a short recovery period.
v
(mathematics) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
v
To remove the tension from something
v
(transitive) To cause to diverge.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To reduce or diminish in effect or intensity.
v
(transitive) To take away; to subtract.
v
(transitive) To convert (text) to lower case.
v
To alter, degrade or downgrade to an earlier or worse version, especially when it was intended to update.
v
(meteorology) to reduce the official estimate of a storm's intensity.
v
(transitive, euphemistic) To terminate the employment of.
v
(idiomatic, intransitive) To become simpler in expression or content; to become unacceptably simplistic.
n
That which is eliminated, e.g. from a mathematical formula.
v
Obsolete spelling of eloign [(obsolete, transitive) To remove (something) to a distance.]
v
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become lax
v
(archaic) To make less; to lessen.
v
(transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
v
(computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
v
(transitive) To gradually reduce the size or scale of
v
(transitive) To diminish or lessen something
v
(intransitive) To lose weight.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To lessen, make less severe or intense.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).
v
To make a reduction in the amount, extent, etc. of something.
v
Alternative form of soften the ground [(idiomatic, often followed by for) To prepare or create favorable conditions (for something), especially with the intent of improving public acceptance of the forthcoming occurrence.]
v
To gradually reduce something, a little at a time, as an electronic step down transformer.
adj
(of a transformer etc) That reduces a voltage
v
(rare) To remove; to deduct; to take away; to disregard.
v
To diminish the effects of (something unpleasant or severe); to dull.
v
(transitive) To reduce the intensity of.
v
(transitive, intransitive, idiomatic) To relax; to make quieter or less obtrusive; to make milder.
v
To create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To cease from swelling; sink from a swollen state; subside.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) be no longer tense; to relax or loosen.
v
(intransitive) To become less thick.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) To relax; to get rid of stress; to destress.
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