reduce

reduce
v
1. decrease, diminish, retrench, subtract, subduct, lessen, shorten, contract, miniaturize; cut, cut into, cut down, cut back, cut short, Inf. make a dent in, abridge, abbreviate, Obs. breviate; narrow, shrink, compress, buff, dock, crop, clip, shear, trim, pare down, shave, nip; curtail, limit, constrict, restrict, confine, cramp; abstract, synopsize, summarize, condense, digest, brief, epitomize; stub, stunt, truncate; slim down, slenderize, shrivel, wither; Naut. reef.
2. mitigate, ease, relax, alleviate, relieve, let up, attenuate, abate, slacken, remit, assuage, mellow, Obs. lenify; restrain, harness, bridle, repress, retard, curb, check, temper, modify, moderate; soften, modulate, tone down, turn down, tune down, muffle, mute, quiet, silence, deaden; brake, slow down, throttle down, rein, rein in; blunt, bate, dull; incapacitate, enfeeble, debilitate, break, inactivate, devitalize.
3. degrade, demote, downgrade, lower in rank or standing, dismiss or remove from office, declass, break or strip of rank, disrate, cashier, Mil. drum out, Mil. Sl. bust, Inf. kick upstairs, disbar, defrock or unfrock; depose, unseat, dethrone, Rare. disenthrone; shame, put to shame, disgrace, dishonor, bring low, ruin, debase, abase, vitiate, lower; humble, humiliate, mortify, Sl. put down.
4. belittle, deprecate, disparage, detract, deflate, put in one's place, depreciate, derogate, Inf. talk down; minimize, dispraise, underestimate, underrate, under-reckon, undervalue, slight, take away from, beggar, extenuate, misprize, think nothing of, set no store by, fail to count on.
5. embarrass, disconcert, chagrin, discomfit, discountenance, abash, confound, perplex, nonplus, confuse.
6.(all of price) discount, mark down, cut, slash, cheapen, put on sale; deduct, subtract, drop; relax, ease.
7. subdue, quell, quash, squash, checkmate, Inf. squelch, put down, foil, still, stamp out, put out, extinguish; crush, rout, discomfit, overrun, put to flight, conquer, vanquish, surmount, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, Sl. wipe the floor with, Euph. kill; subjugate, subject, master.
8. dilute, thin, mix, admix, alloy, rarefy, Inf. doctor, Archaic. extenuate; (all of alcohol) weaken, cut, water, water down.

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