reduce
US: /ɹəˈdus/, /ɹiˈdus/, /ɹɪˈdus/
UK: /ɹɪdjˈuːs/
UK: /ɹɪdjˈuːs/
English Vietnamese dictionary
reduce /ri'dju:s/
- ngoại động từ
- giảm, giảm bớt, hạ
- to reduce speed: giảm tốc độ
- to reduce prices: giảm (hạ) giá
- to reduce the establishment: giảm biên chế; giảm ngân sách cơ quan
- làm nhỏ đi, làm gầy đi, làm yếu đi
- to be reduced to a shadow (skeleton): gầy đi chỉ còn là một bộ xương
- to be greatly reduced by illness: ốm gầy đi nhiều
- làm nghèo đi, làm cho sa sút
- to be in reduced circumstances: bị sa sút
- làm cho, khiến phải, bắt phải
- to reduce to silence: bắt phải im lặng
- to reduce to submission: bắt phải phục tùng
- đổi, biến đổi (sang một trạng thái, hình thức đơn giản hơn, kém hơn)
- to reduce something to ashes: biến vật gì thành tro bụi
- giáng cấp, hạ tầng công tác (một sĩ quan)
- to reduce an officer to the ranks: giáng cấp một sĩ quan xuống làm lính thường
- chinh phục được, bắt phải đầu hàng
- to reduce a province: chinh phục được một tỉnh
- to reduce a fort: bắt một pháo đài để đầu hàng
- (y học) chữa, bó (xương gây), nắn (chỗ trật khớp)
- (hoá học) khử
- (toán học) rút gọn; quy về
- reduced characteristic equation: phương trình đặc trưng rút gọn
- (kỹ thuật) cán dát (kim loại); ép, nén
- giảm, giảm bớt, hạ
- nội động từ
- tự làm cho nhẹ cân đi (người)
Advanced English dictionary
+ verb
1 [VN] ~ sth (from sth) (to sth)
~ sth (by sth) to make sth less or smaller in size, quantity, price, etc: Reduce speed now (= on a sign). + Costs have been reduced by 20% over the past year. + Giving up smoking reduces the risk of heart disease. + The number of employees was reduced from 40 to 25.
2 [VN, V] if you reduce a liquid or a liquid reduces, you boil it so that it becomes less in quantity
3 [V] (AmE, informal) to lose weight by limiting the amount and type of food that you eat: a reducing plan
Idioms: reduced circumstances the state of being poorer than you were before. People say 'living in reduced circumstances' to avoid saying 'poor'.
Phrasal Verbs: reduce sb/sth (from sth) to sth / to doing sth [usually passive] to force sb/sth into a particular state or condition, usually a worse one: a beautiful building reduced to rubble + She was reduced to tears by their criticisms. + They were reduced to begging in the streets.
reduce sth to sth to change sth to a more general or more simple form: We can reduce the problem to two main issues.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 cut (back), cut down (on), decrease, diminish, moderate, abate, lessen, shorten, truncate, abbreviate, abridge, curtail, crop, trim, compress, restrict, limit, stunt:
We must reduce expenses this year.
2 ease (up on), let up (on), decrease, mitigate, tone down, slacken up (on):
It will reduce the burden of your costs if you share with me.
3 lose weight, slim (down), diet, trim down, Chiefly US slenderize:
You'll have to reduce to fit into that dress, Betty.
4 change, modify, adjust, turn, convert; break down or up, grind, rub, triturate, pulp, powder:
Payment of the debt reduced me to poverty. The first step is to reduce the liquid to a thick extract
5 cut, decrease, trim, bring down, lower, drop, mark down, slash, Colloq knock down:
The prices on these shoes have been reduced for a quick sale.
6 demote, degrade, lower, downgrade, break; humble; Military US and Canadian bust:
He was reduced in rank from sergeant to private.
7 diminish, lessen, bring down, depreciate, subdue, belittle, minimize:
He was reduced in her estimation when she saw the deprecating way his friends treated him
8 Medicine set, adjust, reset:
The doctor caused little pain when he reduced her dislocated finger.
Collocation dictionary
ADV.
considerably, dramatically, drastically, greatly, sharply, significantly, substantially | further | slightly
We need to reduce the speed slightly.
| gradually, progressively
Legislation progressively reduced the number of situations in which industrial action could be taken.
VERB + REDUCE
aim to, attempt to, seek to, try to | help (to)
Giving up smoking helps reduce the risk of heart disease.
| manage to | be designed to, be intended to | be expected to, be likely to
PREP.
by
Pollution from the works has been reduced by 70 per cent.
| from, to
The price is reduced from 99p to 85p.
PHRASES
an attempt/effort to reduce sth, measures to reduce sth, reduce sth to a minimum
The risks must be reduced to the absolute minimum.
Concise English dictionary
reduces|reduced|reducingrɪ'duːs /-'dju-
verb
+cut down on; make a reduction in
+make less complex
+bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
+simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
+lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
+be the essential element
+reduce in size; reduce physically
+lessen and make more modest
+make smaller
+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
+narrow or limit
+put down by force or intimidation
+undergo meiosis
+reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
+reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
+be cooked until very little liquid is left
+cook until very little liquid is left
+lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
+take off weight
