reduce

suomi-englanti sanakirja

reduce englannista suomeksi

To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.

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''My father, the eldest son of an ancient but reduced family, left me with little.''

nothing so excellent but a man may falten upon something or other belonging to it whereby to reduce it .

''Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears.''

Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced.

(RQ:Schuster Hepaticae) nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."
To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
To bring to an inferior state or condition.
To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
2011, Edward Behr and James MacGuire, ''The Art of Eating Cookbook: Essential Recipes from the First 25 Years.''

Serve the oxtails with mustard or a sauce made by reducing the soup, if any is left, to a slightly thick sauce.

To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
To reform a line or column from (a square).
To strike off the payroll.
To annul by legal means.
To translate (a book, document, etc.).
returning (from)

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