Reduced can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| reduced - well below normal (especially in price) | ||
| reduced - made less in size or amount or degree | ||
Verb |
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| reduce - cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" | ||
| reduce - cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time" | ||
| reduce - take off weight | ||
| reduce - make smaller; "reduce an image" | ||
| reduce - make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question" | ||
| reduce - destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it | ||
| reduce - simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another | ||
| reduce - be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise" | ||
| reduce - narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners" | ||
| reduce - reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site | ||
| reduce - undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce" | ||
| reduce - lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant" | ||
| reduce - lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living" | ||
| reduce - bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery" | ||
| reduce - reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" | ||
| reduce - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" | ||
| reduce - 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 | ||
| reduce - lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon" | ||
| reduce - be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup" | ||
| reduce - put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land" |
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| 1. | verb | With the US military presence posing a threat on their borders in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran’s moderate leadership is keen to help stabilise Karzai so that the US presence in Afghanistan is reduced. | |
| 2. | verb | The recall of all OBSF stock in early April and retention on balance sheet ( reduced where economically viable ) until positions are fully reconciled and repeatable daily signoff process can be instigated. | |
| 3. | verb | The bill reduces ISS operations by $120 million due to the continued reduced capability of the ISS for at least half of FY05. | |
| 4. | verb | In the winter, they will usually go deep underground and enter a hibernation-like state called brumation, which is characterized by a slowed metabolism and reduced activity. | |
| 5. | verb | But I had my cat spayed through their reduced/free spay and neuter program and the vet they sent us to was first of all a hour and a half away, and 4 days later we had to bring them to our normal vet because the vets at the place in wisconsin did a crappy job and they got infections. | |
| 6. | verb | The convicted drug dealer was willing to comply with the authorities to have his death sentence reduced to a life sentence. | |
| 7. | verb | His classmates' jeers reduced him to tears. | |
| 8. | verb | Our school was reduced to ashes. | |
| 9. | verb | A series of blasts reduced the laboratory to ruins. | |
| 10. | verb | The poor old man was reduced to just a skeleton. | |
| 11. | verb | The fiction reduced girls to tears. | |
| 12. | verb | The explosion reduced the facilities to ruins. | |
| 13. | verb | Those shoes have been reduced. | |
| 14. | verb | The fire reduced the house to ashes. | |
| 15. | verb | The price of this book has been reduced by half. | |
| 16. | adj. | I'm going to make reduced copies. |
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| With the US military presence posing a threat on their borders in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran’s moderate leadership is keen to help stabilise Karzai so that the US presence in Afghanistan is reduced. |
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| The recall of all OBSF stock in early April and retention on balance sheet ( reduced where economically viable ) until positions are fully reconciled and repeatable daily signoff process can be instigated. |
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| The bill reduces ISS operations by $120 million due to the continued reduced capability of the ISS for at least half of FY05. |
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| In the winter, they will usually go deep underground and enter a hibernation-like state called brumation, which is characterized by a slowed metabolism and reduced activity. |
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| But I had my cat spayed through their reduced/free spay and neuter program and the vet they sent us to was first of all a hour and a half away, and 4 days later we had to bring them to our normal vet because the vets at the place in wisconsin did a crappy job and they got infections. |
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| The convicted drug dealer was willing to comply with the authorities to have his death sentence reduced to a life sentence. | |
| His classmates' jeers reduced him to tears. | |
| Our school was reduced to ashes. | |
| A series of blasts reduced the laboratory to ruins. | |
| The poor old man was reduced to just a skeleton. | |
| The fiction reduced girls to tears. | |
| The explosion reduced the facilities to ruins. | |
| Those shoes have been reduced. | |
| The fire reduced the house to ashes. | |
| The price of this book has been reduced by half. | |
| adj. | |
| I'm going to make reduced copies. | |