| take off weight पर्याय: melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down,
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| lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon" पर्याय: dilute, thin, thin out, cut,
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| narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners" पर्याय: tighten,
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| cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time" पर्याय: boil down, concentrate,
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| be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup" पर्याय: boil down, decoct, concentrate,
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| be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise" पर्याय: come down, boil down,
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| 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 पर्याय: deoxidize, deoxidise,
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| make smaller; "reduce an image" पर्याय: scale down,
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| reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" पर्याय: shrink,
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| make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
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| reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" पर्याय: abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract,
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| cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" पर्याय: cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down,
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| destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
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| reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
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| undergo meiosis; "The cells reduce"
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| lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"
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| simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
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| lessen and make more modest; "reduce one''s standard of living"
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| bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
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| 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" पर्याय: repress, quash, keep down, subdue, subjugate,
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