Definitions For Reduce
verb
- Take off weight
- Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- Narrow or limit
- Cook until very little liquid is left
- Be cooked until very little liquid is left
- Be the essential element
- 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
- Make smaller
- Reduce in size; reduce physically
- Make less complex
- Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- Cut down on; make a reduction in
- Destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- Reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- Undergo meiosis
- Lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
- Simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- Lessen and make more modest
- Bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
- Put down by force or intimidation
- To make (something) smaller in size, amount, number, etc.
- To cause (someone) to be in a specified state or condition
- To cause (something) to be in a specified form by breaking it, burning it, etc.
Is Reduce a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
YES
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
9
Words with Friends
11
The word Reduce is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends
Examples of Reduce in a Sentence
- The medicine reduces the risk of infection.
- We are trying to reduce our debt.
- Stricter speed limit enforcement has reduced the number of car accidents.