S: (v) deoxidize, deoxidise, 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)
S: (v) reduce, tighten (narrow or limit) "reduce the influx of foreigners"
S: (v) repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate, 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"
S: (v) reduce (undergo meiosis) "The cells reduce"
S: (v) reduce (reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site)
S: (v) reduce (destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it)
S: (v) change, alter, modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation) "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
S: (v) etiolate (make weak by stunting the growth or development of)
S: (v) cripple, stultify (deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless) "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"
S: (v) dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut (lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture) "cut bourbon"
S: (v) dampen (reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves))
S: (v) neutralize, neutralise, nullify, negate (make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of) "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts"