Reduce

Definitions: Reduce

Reduce

Verb

1. Cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits".

2. Make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question".

3. Bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery".

4. Simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another.

5. Lower in grade or rank; "She reduced her niece to a servant"; force somebody into an unpleasant situation.

6. Be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise".

7. Reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?".

8. Lessen; "reduced standard of living".

9. Make smaller; "reduce an image".

10. : remove oxygen from a compound, in chemistry.

11. : narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners".

12. : 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".

13. : undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce".

14. : reposition back to its normal site, as of a broken bone, in surgery.

15. : reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened".

16. : be cooked until very little is left; as of sauces; "The sauce should reduce to one cup".

17. : cook until very little liquid is left, as of sauces; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time".

18. : lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon".

19. : take off weight.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "reduce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Computing

Chemical Industry

Mining

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Synonyms: Reduce

Contraction

Abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.

Depression

Verb: depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate.

Discount

Verb: discount, bate; abate, rebate; reduce, price down, mark down take off, allow, give, make allowance; tax.

Nonincrease, Decrease

Bate, abate, dequantitate; discount; depreciate; extenuate, lower, weaken, attenuate, fritter away; mitigate; (moderate); dwarf, throw into the shade; reduce; shorten; subtract. Adjective: unincreased; (see increase;); decreased; Verb: decreasing; Verb: on the wane; n.

Poverty

Render poor; Adjective: impoverish; reduce, reduce to poverty; pauperize, fleece, ruin, bring to the parish.

Shortness

Verb: be short; Adjective: render short; Adjective: shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress; (contract); epitomize.

Success

Settle, do for; break the neck of, break the back of; capsize, sink, shipwreck, drown, swamp; subdue; subjugate; (subject); reduce; make the enemy bite the dust; victimize, roll in the dust, trample under foot, put an extinguisher upon.

Weakness

Render weak; Adjective: weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman; (render powerless); cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of; dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate; reduce in strength, reduce the strength of; mettre de l'eau dans son vin.

Crosswords: Reduce

Italian (back, returning), Romanian (abate, abridge, ax, axe, bear down, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, discount, draw in, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, make good, narrow down, pare down, prune, recover, reduce, retrench, slacken, stint, stop, unbend, weaken).

Lewis, however much coffee you drink in the morning, I want you to reduce it by half. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

What would you say if I promised you that I would reduce the cocaine shipments to your country by half? (Clear and Present Danger; writing credit: Donald Stewart)

Let me reduce sails, Sandy, or even go back home. (The Perfect Storm; writing credit: William D. Wittliff)

You reduce women to objects. (Heartbreakers; writing credit: Bobby Roth)

Sopar, you know what to do. If he gives you any trouble at all, reduce him to a memory! (Captain Nice; writing credit: Norman Klenman)

Ma Tries to Reduce (1915)

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Books

• Alpha Lipoic Acid Breakthrough: The Superb Antioxidant That May Slow Aging, Repair Liver Damage, and Reduce the Risk of Cancer, Heart Disease, and Diabetes (reference)

• Touch for Health: A Practical Guide to Natural Health Using Acupressure Touch and Massage to Improve Postural Balance and Reduce Physical and Mental (reference)

• Reversing Hypertension: A Vital New Program to Prevent, Treat, and Reduce High Blood Pressure (reference)

• Credit Card Debt: Reduce Your Financial Burden in Three Easy Steps (reference)

• How To Use Multiple Timing Systems To Help Adjust Allocation To The Market To Reduce Risk And Enhance Returns [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Reduce Fat for Better Health (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Reduce (reference)

• To Reduce the Choir to One Soloist (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Kodak Advantix (1600)Film Auto Camera 23MM Lens/Auto Flash/Red Eye Reduce (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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From an overhead angle, bread, chinese cabbage, strawberry, grapes, brussels sprouts and a leaf garnish are shown on a white patterned table. On a purple napkin above the food, white lettering reads: "Healthy eating may reduce your risk of some kinds of cancer". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" December 1989. See artwork: PV-19.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Shown is an ad about Metamucil with 80% solulble fiber. NCI studies have shown that a high fiber, low fat diet could help reduce some kinds of cancer.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Note the struts and perforations of the individual scale. This helps to promote heightened aerodynamic lift during the insect's flight, as well as reduce the weight of the wing mechanism.Credit: CDC.

Tape contact at middle of comparator Basically calibrating steel tapes - first use of steel measuring tapes by C&GS Nine bases being measured on 98th Meridian by base line party under A.L. Baldwin Fig. No. 15, Appendix No. 3, Report of Superintendent ... 1901, p. 260 Work done at night to reduce expansion and contraction of steel tape.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The beach at Tybee Island. Fences help reduce erosion.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Starfish attacking young oysters. Special equipment is used to dredge or scrape starfish off oyster beds in order to reduce the damage to the oysters. F&W 12,001.Credit: Fisheries.

Work in progress at Duck Creek. This image shows the channel realignment and meander after it has been added to the stream. The sand bags in the foreground were used to create meanders and pools and to reduce the width of the stream.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The Eastern Neck site prepared for planting. The poles represent planting treatment designations. The poles with flags indicate transects that were used for topography and vegetation surveys. In the distance, rocks were placed to reduce storm wave energy.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Conservation tillage helps reduce soil erosion.Credit: Unknown.

One measure used to reduce odor associated with animal waste lagoons is to pump the affluent directly under the water.Credit: Bob Nichols.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This is demonstratively to reduce all to anarchy, and so effectually to dissolve the government: for laws not being made for themselves, but to be, by their execution, the bonds of the society, to keep every part of the body politic in its due place and function; when that totally ceases, the government visibly ceases, and the people become a confused multitude, without order or connexion. (Second Treatise of Government)

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. (reference)

But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience." What does this accusation reduce itself to? The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms, antagonisms that assumed different forms at different epochs. (reference)

The exercise of the rights mentioned under (a) and (b) of the present Article shall not interfere with navigability nor reduce the facilities for navigation, either in the bed of the Rhine or in, the derivations which may be substituted therefor, nor shall it involve any increase in the tolls formerly levied under the Convention in force. (reference)

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Health

Ice packs to help reduce swelling. (references)

Reduce the amount of alcohol you drink. (references)

They help reduce ulcer pain after a few weeks. (references)

Business

The plan before the NESDB is a major step to reduce that wastage. (references)

Third, there is technology to significantly reduce auto emissions. (references)

Profertil's fertilizer plant will reduce demand for imported fertilizers. (references)

Children

Belize

The NOPCA instituted a nationwide telephone help line to encourage discourse and reduce abuse. (references)

Namibia

Centers for abused women and children were working actively to reduce the trauma suffered by abused children. (references)

Ukraine

Several charity groups were formed to assist these children, but they have not been able to reduce the problem. (references)

Civil Liberties

Belgium

This policy is intended to reduce processing time for applicants. (references)

Brunei

On October 1, legislation that could be used to reduce press freedom significantly took effect. (references)

Papua New Guinea

The UNHCR began to reduce the scale of its operations in Western Province in 1999 and coordinates the voluntary return of refugees to their homes in Irian Jaya. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

Residential consumers must reduce consumption by 20 percent. (references)

Greece

This would reduce the government holding to OTE to 42 percent. (references)

Ukraine

Efforts are being made to reduce the number of licenses required. (references)

Human Rights

Malawi

Bail frequently is granted to reduce prison overcrowding. (references)

Guinea-Bissau

The President has the authority to grant pardons and reduce sentences. (references)

Cape Verde

The former President's July 2000 amnesty did not reduce the overcrowding. (references)

Indigenous People

Mexico

The ICRC announced that it would likely reduce food assistance after assessing results of the fall harvest. (references)

Australia

Federal and state government leaders agreed in November 2000 to promote the economic welfare of indigenous people and reduce economic disparity. (references)

Minorities

Lebanon

Refugees fear that the Government may reduce the size of the camps or eliminate them completely. (references)

Political Economy

VENEZUELA

Expenditures will be difficult to reduce due to political considerations. (references)

HUNGARY

Privatization revenues helped to reduce substantially Hungary's foreign debt. (references)

NETHERLANDS

Work-shortening programs (ADV) effectively reduce the average workweek to 36 hours. (references)

Political Rights

Kenya

Since 1996 a broad coalition of NGO's and religious organizations has mobilized public opinion in support of a reform of the Constitution to reduce the power of the presidency. (references)

Zimbabwe

Since 1997 the NCA, an umbrella organization comprising most of the country's important civil society groups, has advocated the creation of a new constitution that would reduce the power of the presidency and offer greater protection for civil liberties. (references)

Trade

China

To this end, the Chinese Government has undertaken measures to reduce these barriers. (references)

Travel

West Bank

American citizens should maintain a low profile and take appropriate steps to reduce their vulnerability. (references)

Ireland

Reference to INCOTERMS, the international set of rules for commercial terms, helps to reduce possible misunderstandings. (references)

Guyana

Maintaining awareness of your surroundings and using common sense precautions appropriate to visiting a strange city will do much to reduce the risk of becoming a victim. (references)

Women

Cote d'Ivoire

The committee's objective is to define programs and actions to reduce social inequalities and to make recommendations on combating violence against women. (references)

Palau

Women's group leaders and government officials agree that changes are needed to improve the country's educational system and to reduce illegal drug use among youth. (references)

Mexico

In June 2000, then-Mexico City Mayor Rosario Robles publicized a handbook written by a coalition of feminist NGO's to reduce domestic violence and to help victims of gender discrimination. (references)

Worker Rights

New Zealand

The act also promotes mediation and attempts to reduce the need for judicial intervention. (references)

France

Firms with fewer than 20 workers have until January 2002 to reduce their workweek to 35 hours. (references)

Dominica

The law further states that no employer may reduce the wages of an employee to comply with equal wage standards. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "reduce": do not reduce ♦ reduce expenses ♦ reduce one's weight ♦ reduce oneself ♦ reduce price ♦ reduce speed ♦ reduce the cost of ♦ reduce the price ♦ reduce the strength of ♦ reduce the tax on ♦ reduce to ♦ reduce to a square ♦ reduce to absurdity ♦ reduce to ashes ♦ reduce to beggary ♦ reduce to common denominator ♦ reduce to demonstration ♦ reduce to grains ♦ reduce to powder ♦ reduce to pulp ♦ reduce to rubble ♦ reduce to silence ♦ reduce to the commonplace ♦ reduce to the ranks ♦ reduce to widowhood ♦ reduce to writing ♦ reduce weight ♦ To reduce a square ♦ To reduce an equation ♦ To reduce an expression. Additional references.

Ending with "reduce": photo-reduce.

Afrikaan

afslaan (aberrate, discount, rebate, reduce the price, reject, turn). (various references)

Albanian

redukoj, zvogëloj (abate, belittle, curtail, decrease, diminish, lessen, make smaller, minimize, mitigate, qualify, rebate, relax, relieve, scale down, slacken, take away, take in, take up, understate), ul (abase, cast down, cheapen, couch, decline, depress, disparage, drop, embus, furl, humble, incline, keep down, knock off, land, lower, modulate, pull down, scale down, seat, sink, strike, subdue, subside, throw, turn down, untuck), thjeshtoj (cancel, simplify), pushtoj (carry, conquer, creep over, enfold, engross, envelop, fold, hog, invade, jump, obsess, overcome, overreach, overrun, overtake, overwhelm, pervade, possess, reach, reign, rush back, seize, smite, straddle, sweep, take, take a fancy to, take possession of), pakësoj (abate, abridge, curtail, cut down, deflate, degrade, diminish, lessen, lower, narrow, pare, razee, retrench, slacken, understate, vitiate), nënshtroj (enslave, master, subdue, subject, subjugate, submit, subordinate, vanquish), ligem (pine), kthej në, katandis (descend, render), dobësoj (attenuate, debilitate, depauperate, depress, devitalize, dilute, dim, diminish, dull, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, impair, use up, weaken), dobësohem (become weak, decay, dilute, ebb, fail, flag, grow feeble, grow thin, lag, languish, melt, relax, sink, slip, tone down, wane, weaken, wilt), degradoj (break, degrade, downgrade). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هزل (attenuate, badinage, emaciate, extenuate, fun, humor, humour, joke, languish, peak, pine, pine away, playfulness, pleasantry, slim, thin), ‏نقص (allow, cut, cut down, decrease, deficiency, depress, deprivation, detract, diminish, diminution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, famish, flaw, gap, imperfection, incompetence, insufficiency, knock off, lack, lessen, limit, lower, paucity, rareness, reduction, retrench, revocation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, thin), ‏نزل الرتبة, ‏قلل (decrease, diminish, lessen, make less, minify, minimize, slim), ‏قلص (constrict, constringe, contract, cut, decrease, diminish, minimize, scale down), ‏حال إلى, ‏سكت (hold one's tongue, hush, keep mum, quiet, shut up, subside, whist), ‏سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crack, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), ‏عالج الصورة السلبية, ‏خضع (bend, bow, compel, conquer, hew, knuckle under, kowtow, reclaim, steady, subdue, subject, subjugate, submit, subordinate, succumb, throw in one's hand, undergo, wash, yield), ‏إختزل (shorthand), ‏إختصر (abbreviate, abridge, analyse, analyze, boil down, clip, curtail, cut short, limit, nick, outline, shorten, syncopate), ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken), ‏أجبر (bring, coerce, compel, constrain, drive, force, impress, make, oblige, overstrain, pressure, reset), ‏دق (beetle, chink, hammer, hammer down, knock, maul, percussion, pound, pounding, pulverization, triturate, trituration). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ограничавам (bound, chasten, circumscribe, constrain, contract, focalize, hem, immure, intern, limit, localise, localize, narrow, peg down, pinch, qualify, repress, restrict, specialize, straiten, tie down, trammel), извличам минерал от руда, изтощавам (bucket, crock, deplete, distress, do in, emaciate, exhaust, extend, fag, farm out, fatigue, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, kill, leech, overcrop, overwork, play out, poop, prostrate, pump, pump out, punish, rack, run down, sew up, spend, tire out, tucker, waste), подвеждам (bring under, lead on, mislead, stuff, throw off), понижавам (abase, abate, degrade, demote, disgrace, flatten, impair, lower, relegate, sing flat, whittle away), принуждавам (coerce, compel, constrain, drive, force, make, necessitate, oblige, overpersuade, pressure, pressurize, sandbag), превръщам (change, convert, gasify, metamorphose, organize, ossify, powder, pulverize, transform, transmute, turn, vaporize, volatilize), пресовам (calender, extrude, press, roll), докарвам (account, bring, bring over, bring up, dress, dress up, drive, induce, land, lay, produce, return, send, set, smarten, work), намесвам, съкращавам (abbreviate, abridge, cancel, condense, contract, curtail, cut short, discard, elide, prune, retrench, slash, take off, terminate, truncate), откислявам (deoxidate), отслабям (abate, cripple, depauperate, ease, loosen, relax, remit, shake, weaken, wear down), разжалвам (bust, cast, degrade, displume), разреждам (attenuate, dilute, qualify, rarefy, space, water down), редуцирам, слабея (languish, peak and pine, thin, thin down), снишавам (lower), свеждам (cast down, droop, relegate), намалявам (abate, abbreviate, allay, attenuate, bring down, clip, contract, curtail, cut back, cut down, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, degrade, deplete, detract, dim, diminish, ebb, extenuate, fine, impair, knock off, lessen, lighten, lull, minify, minimize, moderate, modify, pare down, prejudice, put back, put down, remit, run down, scant, shorten, shrink, sink, slacken, subdue, take from, thin, thin away, thin down, understate, wane, work down). (various references)

Chinese 

裁 (cut, cut out, decision, diminish, judgment, trim), 脧 (extort, fleece), 緊縮 (cut back, tighten), 縮小 (decrease), 减少 (cutback, Decreased, Decreasing, Diminish, Diminished, Diminishing, Diminution, Dwindle, Dwindled, Dwindling, Mio, reduced, reducing, reduction, rundown, Wane, Waned, Waning). (various references)

Czech

redukovat (decrease, deflate, slim), zredukovat (retrench, scale down, trim), zpomalit (arrest, decelerate, hinder, retard, slack up, slow, slow down, stunt), zmenšit (abate, deplete, diminish, lessen, scale down, weaken, whittle away), zkrátit (abbreviate, abridge, Bob, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut short, dock, shorten), zeslabit (become weak, depress, diminish, enervate, impair, weaken), snížit (abate, bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, debase, decrease, deplete, diminish, drop, knock, lessen, lop off, pull down, put down, whittle away), přinutit (coerce, compel, constrain, extrude, force, make, will, work), přemoci (conquer, defeat, fight down, master, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, prostrate, stifle, surmount, swallow, vanquish), degradovat (bust, degrade, demote, displume, downgrade, relegate). (various references)

Danish

nedsaette toldsatserne i et hurtigere tempo end det,der er fastsat i artikel 14 (to reduce customs duties more rapidly than is provided for in article 14), nedsaette maengden af de varer der kan indfoeres afgiftsfrit (reduce the quantity of the goods which may be admitted duty-free), nedgand i udgifterne (to curtail expenses, to limit expenses, to reduce expenses), nedbringe tab før of efter høsten (to reduce pre-and post-harvest losses), koncentrationer af peracetylnitrat paa 0,3-0,5 ppm formindsker den ergometrisk maalte fysiske ydeevne (concentrations of peracetyle nitrate of the order of 0.3 ppm to 0.5 ppm reduce physical activity as measured by ergometric tests), gå ikke lavere (do not reduce), formindske eller gradvis afvikle alle slags hindringer for samhandelens udvikling (to reduce or progressively eliminate all kinds of obstacles to the development of trade), blyholdige additiver har den virkning,at braendstoffets oktantal foroeges,hovorved tilboejeligheden til bankning formindskes (lead-base additives have the effect of increasing the octane number of fuels in order to reduce the tendency to knock), begrænse handelsformaliteterne (to reduce formalities imposed on trade, to reduce trade formalities), begrænse de formalitetskrav der stilles til handelen (to reduce formalities imposed on trade, to reduce trade formalities), at mindske energiforbruget og at nedbringe mest muligt eller afskaffe affald (to reduce energy consumption and to minimize or eliminate waste). (various references)

Dutch

reduceren (abbreviate, refining, swaging), inkrimpen (abbreviate, abridge, curtail, shorten), herleiden (abbreviate, to project backwards, to recalculate, to transform). (various references)

Esperanto

redukti. (various references)

Faeroese

minka (abbreviate), gera einfaldan (abbreviate). (various references)

Farsi 

فتح کردن (Conquer), مطیع کردن (Subdue, Subject, Subjugate), کم کردن (Alleviate, Bate, Cut, Deduce, Deduct, Detract, Drawoff, Extenuate, Rebate, Relax, Retrench, Shade, Soften, Subtract, Thin, Weaken), تنزل دادن (Lower, Playdown), استحاله کردن . (various references)

Finnish

supistaa (abbreviate, abridge, constrict, contract, curtail, cut, cut down, limit, restrict). (various references)

French

réduire (rebate, retrench). (various references)

Frisian

ôfslaan (abase, abate, aberrate, decrease, discount, lower, rebate, reduce the price, reject, turn). (various references)

German

reduzieren (abbreviate, bring down, cut, decrease, depress, fine down, prune, swaging, to reduce, wind down), vermindern (abate, attenuate, decrease, derogate, diminish, ease, lessen, slacken, to derogate, to diminish, weaken). (various references)

Greek 

περιορίζω (abridge, circumscribe, confine, constrict, contain, cramp, crib, cut down, inhibit, limit, localise, localize, minimize, restrict, retrench, scant, scotch, stint, straiten), ελαττώνω (abate, attenuate, decrease, diminish, lessen, minimize). (various references)

Hebrew 

למעט (decrease, exclude, excluding, exclusive of, lessen, slight, with the exeption of, without), לפחת (decrease, diminish, lessen), לפחות (at least, be reduced, become less, decrease, diminish, leastways, lessen), לחסר (cause loss, decrease, deduct, lessen, miss someone, subtract), ל�"וזיל (cheapen, lower), ל�"קטין (abate, decrease, detract, diminish, lessen, scale down), ל�"פחית (abate, abridge, cut down, decrease, devaluate, diminish, lower, remit, step down, subtract, take away), ל�'מו�" (contract, stunt), ל�'רוע (derogate, detract, diminish, lessen, shear, subtract), לבצר (fortify, reinforce, subdue), לרזות (slenderize, slim), לצמצם (contract, diminish, limit, minimize, narrow, restrict, scant, stunt). (various references)

Hungarian

leszállít (cheapen, to ax, to bring down, to cut down, to pull in, to put down, to send down), lefokoz tisztet, csökkent (abate, alleviate, attenuate, cut, cut back, decrease, diminish, look down, lower, mitigate, reduced, remit, step down, to abate, to abridge, to ax, to curtail, to cut back, to cut down, to deflate, to depress, to derogate, to ease, to ease down, to lessen, to lower, to pare down, to pull in, to put down, to reduce, to release, to send down, to slack, to slacken, to step down, tone down, understate), csökkenés (abatement, attenuation, decline, decrease, diminution, droop, easement, go down, lessening, letdown, loss, reduction, remission, shrinkage, shrinking, subsidence, waste), apaszt (decrease, to lessen). (various references)

Indonesian

menciutkan (narrow). (various references)

Italian

ridurre (abandon ship, abate, abbreviate, abridge, adapt, Bate, be reduced, bring down, curtail, cut, cut down, decrease, depress, drive, pare down, prune, rebate, reduce oneself, remit, shorten, shrink, turn into), diminuire (abate, Bate, decline, decrease, detract, diminish, drop, dwindle, fall, go, go down, lessen, reduction, relax, remit, sag, slacken, slump, wane, weaken, worsen). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

通分 , リチウ� 爆弾 (car with 1000cc engine, lip, lip cream, lip service, lipreading, lipstick, literacy, literal, literary, literature, lithium bomb, lithograph, Lithuania, litmus, litre, redisplay, rich, ridge, ripple, rocking motion, small-scale finance), 殺 (butcher, diminish, kill, murder, slice off, split, spoil), 削 (crossout, curtail, pare, plane, scrape off, sharpen, shave, whittle). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

リデュース , さつ (butcher, counter for books, diminish, kill, murder, note, paper money, police, remain, slice off, split, spoil, stay, temple, volume), さく (a harvest, a work, cord, crossout, curtail, fence, last, paling, pare, plan, plane, policy, rope, scrape off, sharpen, shave, to alienate, to avoid, to bloom, to cede, to cleave, to cut up, to divide, to separate, to sever, to spare, to split, to tear, whittle, yesterday), つうぶ�". (various references)

Korean 

감소하십시�". (various references)

Manx

thannaghey (attenuate, bed in; thinning, cracking up of oil; shoal of waters, cracking up; shoal of waters, dilute, dilution, emaciate, liquefy, rarefaction, rarefy, rarefying, reduction, shallow, slenderize, slim, thin), shangaghey (emaciate, macerate, maceration, slenderization, slenderize, slim, slimming, thinning, waste, waste as body), lhaggaghey (abate, abatement, bate, depress, dim, drop away, ease, ease off, fade, fade out, flag, mitigate; flagging, mitigation, reduction, relax, relaxation, write down), leodaghey (decrease, degrade, depreciate, detract, diminish, diminution; detractor; cheap, diminution; detractor; cheap morally, dislike, disparage, disparagement, disrespect, drop, dull; reduction, impair, impairment, mitigate, mitigation, offset, remission, subtract, undervalue), jee-ocsaidaghey, injillaghey (change down, cheap, cheap morally, condescend, cut, cut down, debase, defer, degradation, degrade, demote, demotion, depreciate, depreciation, depress, depression, die down, humiliate, humiliation, level down, reduction, relegate, sink, step down, subdue, subject, submit, subordinate, subordination, turn down, vulgarization, vulgarize), goaill (acceptance, affect, apprehend, apprehension, arrest, assumption, assumption of office, bring off, capture, catch, contract, contract as disease, contraction, distrain, draw off, engage, expropriation, impound, preoccupation, seizure, take), cur fo chosh (get under, overwhelm, rid, subdue, suppress, suppression). (various references)

Pig Latin

educeray

Portuguese

reduzir (baiting, Bate, bating, boil down, curtail, cut, decrease, diminish, lessen, minify, minimize, restrict, retrench, scale, scrimp, shorten, sink, skimp, slash, tapering, to reduce, weaken, wear down, write off), tornar menor (decrease), diminuir (abate, abridge, assuage, attenuate, commute, cut down, dampen, decline, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, dwarf, dyad, extenuate, fall, impair, lessen, lower, mince, minify, pass off, rebate, relax, retrench, shorten, shrink, sink, wear down, Whittle). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

reduzir (to reduce). (various references)

Romanian

retrograda (abase, degrade, demote, relegate), repara (cobble, darn, doctor, fix, fix up, make amends for, make good, mend, overhaul, piece, readjust, reclaim, rectify, redress, refit, renovate, repair, retrieve), reduce (abate, abridge, ax, axe, bear down, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, discount, draw in, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, make good, narrow down, pare down, prune, recover, retrench, slacken, stint, stop, unbend, weaken), prescurta (abbreviate, abridge, condense, curtail, riddle, shorten), atenua (abate, alleviate, attenuate, dilute, diminish, dull, extenuate, gloze, mellow, soften, subdue, subjugate, tone down, water down), coborî (abate, alight, bring low, climb down, come down, couch, cut, debase, decline, depreciate, descend, detrain, dip, dismount, down, drop, duck, fall, get off, go down, lower, move down, suppress), diminua (adate, decline, decrease, depress, diminish, minimize, mitigate, retrench, take the edge off), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck), formula (couch, define, draw, enunciate, express, formulate, frame, have, indite, lay down, phrase, pose, push, put, put in, state, word), micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), îndrepta (aim, align, amend, bend, better, cast, chasten, correct, direct, drive, guide, head for, improve, lead, mend, point at, reclaim, recover, redeem, redress, reform, remedy, right, send, set, shape, steer, straighten, tend, train, unbend), preface (alter, change, convert, feign, sham, simulate, swell, transform), transforma (alter, change, chop, commute, convert, fashion, idolize, modify, permute, recast, resolve, transform, transmogrify, transmute, turn into), scãdea (abate, abstract, decay, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, depress, derogate from, diminish, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fall, go down, lower, recede, relax, sag, shrink, sink, subside, subtract, take off, wane), scurta (abbreviate, abridge, crop, prune away, prune down, shorten, stop), slãbi (abate, attenuate, Bate, crock, debilitate, depauperate, diminish, drain, droop, dull, ease, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, extenuate, fade, fail, flag, go down, grow weak, impair, languish, let, loosen, lose flesh, lose weight, macerate, mine, peak and pine, pinch, pull down, relax, sap, sink, slack, slacken, slenderize, slim, soften, subdue, subside, take the edge off, thin, undermine, weaken), modera (curb, dilute, diminish, moderate, regulate, temper). (various references)

Russian 

уменьшать (abate, decrease, detract, diminish, extenuate, lessen, minify, narrow down, relieve, remit, retrench, scale down, shrinks, take off, throttle back). (various references)

Scottish

stamhnaich (reduce to order). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uprostiti (cancel, simplify), umanjiti (attenuate, cut back, decrease, detract, diminish, extenuate, make a hole in, minify, minimize, turn down), svesti (bring down, subdue), smanjivati (impair), smanjiti (abate, curtail, cut back, cut down, decrease, diminish, downsize, lessen, mitigate, pare down, rebate, slash, whittle away, whittle down), skratiti (abbreviate, abridge, curtail, cut short, detruncate, foreshorten, shorten, syncopate, telescope, truncate), namestiti (fix, focus, furnish, lay, place, pose, posit, rig, set right, tune in), mršaviti (lose weight). (various references)

Spanish

reducir (abridge, bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, cut down on, decrease, dock, lessen, lower, narrow, set, shorten, slow down, step down, weaken), disminuir (abate, assuage, attenuate, curtail, cut down, damp, decline, decrease, detract, diminish, drop, drop off, fall, fall away, fall off, lighten, like, lower, put down, relieve, subside, weaken), achicar (bail, bale, diminish, dwarf, humble, lessen, minimize, pump out, scoop out, scoop up, take in, to bale out, to dry out, unwater) to). (various references)

Swedish

reducera (deoxidate, deoxidize, discount, reducing, whittle down), minska (abate, allay, curtail, decrease, degrade, descend, detract from, diminish, ease, extenuate, fall off, fine away, fine down, go down, lapse, lessen, let up, lower, put down, sag, shrink, sink, slacken, step down, subside, wane), knappa in, inskränka (confine, cramp, hedge, limit, restrain, restrict). (various references)

Turkish

indirgemek (degrade), alçaltmak (bastardize, belittle, bemean, debase, detract, downgrade, drag down, lift down, lower, set down, sink), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow), azalma (abatement, alleviation, attenuation, decline, decrease, decrement, degradation, diminution, drop, falling away, falling off, impairment, let up, letdown, reduction, remission, scale down, shortening, subsidence, wane), azaltmak (abate, alleviate, appease, attenuate, ax, axe, Bate, cut back, cut down on, deaden, decrease, depress, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, fade in, impair, lessen, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slim down, step back, step down, taper off), bölmek (break down, carve up, cleave, divide, divvy, divvy up, overslaugh, parcel, parcel out, partition, portion, rend, section, segment, separate, sever, share, slice, split), dönüştürmek (coke, convert, process into, resolve, transform, translate, transmute, transubstantiate, turn, turn into, turn to), düşürmek (beat down, cause to fall, curtail, deflate, depress, drop, flop, knock off, let down, let fall, lower, mark down, overthrow, precipitate, pull dawn, put down, roll back, scale down, screw down, send down, sink, slim down, spill, step down, take from, throw, topple over, trip), eksiltmek (decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, underbid), ergitmek, eritmek (dissolve, fuse, fuze, make a dent in, melt, render, smelt, thaw, unfreeze, whittle away, whittle off), özetlemek (abridge, abstract, boil down, brief, compress, encapsulate, epitomize, incapsulate, outline, precis, resume, sum up, summarize, totalize, wrap up), inceltmek (attenuate, diminish, fine away, fine down, refine, sharpen, slenderize, subtilize, thin, thin down, thin of, thin out), zorunda bırakmak (compel, obligate, oblige), indirmek (bash, bring down, cast down, clip, clout, clump, cut, degrade, dismount, down, draw down, drop off, dump, land, lay low, let down, lift down, lower, plant, put down, relegate, send down, set down, strike, take down, take from, take off, unlade), kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), kısaltmak (abbreviate, abridge, cancel, clip, compress, curtail, cut down, dock, edit, make shorter, prune, retrench, short circuit, shorten, summarize, take up), kısmak (abridge, attenuate, ax, axe, check, choke, choke back, choke off, curtail, cut back, cut down on, depress, diminish, draw in, economize, narrow, pare, pare down, pinch, put down, qualify, retrench, scrimp, skimp, soften, stint, throttle, throttle down, tighten, turn down), küçültmek (abase, belittle, decrease, derogate, diminish, dispraise, lessen, lower, make smaller, miniaturize, minify, minimize, shrink), mecbur etmek (coerce, compel, constrain, cow smb. into, force, obligate, oblige, pin, pin down, railroad, railroad into doing, subject), sadeleştirmek (cancel, chasten, simplify), sarsmak (affect, afflict, agitate, buffet, buffet about, concuss, convulse, cut up, depolarise, dislocate, erode, give a jerk, hit, horrify, jar, jerk, jog, jolt, jounce, rock, shake, shake up, shock, undermine, unsettle), yerine oturtmak (seat, slot), zayıflamak (be on the wane, decay, decline, fade, grow lean, grow thin, loose flesh, peak, slim, thin, thin down, thin of, thin out, weaken), zayıflatmak (cripple, damp down, debilitate, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, evirate, fade, impair, impoverish, slim, soften, thin down, thin of, thin out, weaken, wear away, wear down), haline getirmek (resolve, transform, work up into). (various references)

Turkmen 

seяreklemek (diminish), selзenlemek, яuwaюatmak, haяallatmak (delay, slow down). (various references)

Ukranian 

худнути (attenuate, emaciate, grow thin, lose weight, slenderize, slim, thin, thin away), знижувати (abate, bring down, невимушенІсть [f], degrade, depress, discount, lower, put down, send down, take from), послаблювати (allay, damp, ease), перетворювати (convert, make smb., transfigure, transmute). (various references)

Welsh

toli (cut), gostwng (abase, abate, bow, humble, lower, put down). (various references)

arto, confecta, confectaeque, confectum, confectus, confici, conficiat, conficiente, conficiet, deminuerit, deminutae, macero, minora, minorabitur, minorasti, minoratio, minoratur, minoratus, minorem, minores, minuas, minue, minuentur, minuere, minues, minuetis, minuetur, minui, minuisti, minuit, minuitur, minuta, minutis, minutum, redegerat, redegerunt, redegit, redigam, redigant, redigar, redigas, redigatur, redigens, redigentes, redigentur, rediges, redigetur, redigit, r