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What does reduce mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word reduce? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
  2. (intransitive) To lose weight.
  3. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
  4. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
  5. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
  6. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
  7. (chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
  8. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
  9. (mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
  10. (logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
  11. (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").
  12. (medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
  13. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
  14. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).
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