Definitions for reduced

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reduced re·duced

Spelling: [ri-doost, -dyoost]

IPA: /rɪˈdust, -ˈdyust/

Reduced is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in reduced (cddeeru).

Definitions for reduced

adjective

1. that is or has been reduced.
2. Mathematics. noting a polynomial equation in which the second highest power is missing:

verb (used with object)

1. to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.:
2. to lower in degree, intensity, etc.:
3. to bring down to a lower rank, dignity, etc.: .
4. to treat analytically, as a complex idea.
5. to lower in price.
6. to bring to a certain state, condition, arrangement, etc.:
7. to bring under control or authority.
8. Cookery. to evaporate water from (a sauce, soup, or other liquid), usually by boiling.
9. Photography. to lessen the density of (an exposed negative).
10. to adjust or correct by making allowances, as an astronomical observation.
11. Mathematics. to change the denomination or form, but not the value, of (a fraction, polynomial, etc.).
12. Chemistry. to add electrons to. to deoxidize. to add hydrogen to. to change (a compound) so that the valence of the positive element is lower.
13. Chemistry, Metallurgy. to bring into the metallic state by separating from nonmetallic constituents.
14. to thin or dilute:
15. to lower the alcoholic concentration of (spirits) by diluting with water.
16. Surgery. to restore to the normal place, relation, or condition, as a fractured bone.
17. Phonetics. to modify the quality of (a speech sound) to one of lesser distinctiveness, especially to pronounce (an unstressed vowel) as (ə) or another centralized vowel, as in the unstressed syllables of medicinal.

verb (used without object)

1. to become reduced.
2. to become lessened, especially in weight.
3. to be turned into or made to equal something:
4. Cell Biology. to undergo meiosis.

Origin of reduced

First recorded in 1620-30; reduce + -ed²

Examples for reduced

This leaves people with a history of anorexia and reduced bone density like me at high risk for fractures.

Continue to cook until the sauce has reduced by three quarters.

The duties were to be reduced and the system improved, but the principle was to be maintained.

However, the Air Force is so strapped for people that the ratio has dropped below even that reduced level.

Even Miss Grange, now reduced to second place, remonstrated with her senior.

They were now reduced to one room, and the boys slept on the floor.

I wouldn't be surprised if the next Consolidated dividend was reduced.

However, this has reduced consciousness of risk among young people, making the message of fear meaningless.

In a few minutes Katy had reduced her emotions to a dry sniffle.

Last time Gazprom reduced staff was during the crises of 2008.