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S: (v) reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down (cut down on; make a reduction in) "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"

S: (v) shorten (make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration) "He shortened his trip due to illness"
S: (v) spill (reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail))
S: (v) quench (reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance)
S: (v) retrench (make a reduction, as in one's workforce) "The company had to retrench"
S: (v) slash (cut drastically) "Prices were slashed"
S: (v) thin out (make sparse) "thin out the young plants"
S: (v) thin (make thin or thinner) "Thin the solution"
S: (v) take away, detract (take away a part from; diminish) "His bad manners detract from his good character"
S: (v) deflate (reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices) "deflate the currency"
S: (v) inflate (increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value) "inflate the currency"
S: (v) downsize ((of a company) reduce in size or number of employees) "the company downsized its research staff"
S: (v) subtract (take off or away) "this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French"

W: (adj) reductive [Related to: reduce] (characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment) "their views of life were reductive and depreciatory" - R.H.Rovere
W: (n) reduction [Related to: reduce] (the act of decreasing or reducing something)

S: (n) decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down (the act of decreasing or reducing something)
S: (n) reduction, reducing (any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent)
S: (n) reduction, simplification (the act of reducing complexity)