| reduce | (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin |
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| (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, trim, trim back, trim down |
| (verb) narrow or limit | Synonyms: tighten |
| (verb) cook until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate |
| (verb) 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 | Synonyms: deoxidise, deoxidize |
| (verb) make smaller | Synonyms: scale down |
| (verb) reduce in size; reduce physically | Synonyms: shrink |
| (verb) make less complex | - |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, shorten |
| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, dilute, thin, thin out |
| (verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate, decoct |
| (verb) be the essential element | Synonyms: boil down, come down |
| (verb) destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it | - |
| (verb) undergo meiosis | - |
| (verb) reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site | - |
| (verb) lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation | - |
| (verb) lessen and make more modest | - |
| (verb) simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another | - |
| (verb) bring to humbler or weaker state or condition | - |
| (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, repress, subdue, subjugate |
| reduced | (adjective) made less in size or amount or degree | Synonyms: decreased |
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| (adjective) well below normal (especially in price) | Synonyms: rock-bottom |
| reducer | (noun) pipefitting that joins two pipes of different diameter | - |
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| (noun) a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver | Synonyms: reducing agent, reductant |
| reducible | (adjective) capable of being reduced | - |
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| reducing | (noun) any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent | Synonyms: reduction |
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| (noun) loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer | - |
| reductant | (noun) a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver | Synonyms: reducer, reducing agent |
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| reductase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyses the biochemical reduction of some specified substance | - |
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| reductio | (noun) (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction | Synonyms: reductio ad absurdum |
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| reduction | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: decrease, diminution, step-down |
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| (noun) the act of reducing complexity | Synonyms: simplification |
| (noun) any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent | Synonyms: reducing |
| reductionism | (noun) a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components | - |
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| (noun) the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents | - |
| reductionist | (adjective) of or relating to the theory of reductionism | - |
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| reductive | (adjective) characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment | - |
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| reductivism | (noun) an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color | Synonyms: minimal art, minimalism |
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| redundance | (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundancy |
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| redundancy | (noun) repetition of an act needlessly | - |
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| (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundance |
| (noun) (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails | - |
| (noun) repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission | - |
| redundant | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
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| (adjective) repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words | Synonyms: pleonastic, tautologic, tautological |
| reduplicate | (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, duplicate, repeat, replicate |
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| (verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: geminate |
| reduplication | (noun) the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: reiteration |
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| (noun) a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word) | - |
| (noun) the syllable added in a reduplicated word form | - |
| (noun) repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next | Synonyms: anadiplosis |
| reduviid | (noun) a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals | Synonyms: assassin bug |
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| redux | (adjective) brought back | - |
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