1. decrease 2. To bring to a humbler, weaker, difficult, or forced state or condition; especially: 3. Declaration of Independence 4. Enemy bombers reduced the city to rubble. 5. was reduced almost to emaciation. 6. To sap the spirit or mental energy of. 7. The Depression reduced many to begging on street corners. 8. demote 9. To powder or pulverize. 10. To thin (paint) with a solvent. 11. The store has drastically reduced winter coats. 12. reduce a complex tax situation. 13. To separate into orderly components by analysis. 14. To decrease the valence of (an atom) by adding electrons. 15. To remove oxygen from (a compound). 16. To add hydrogen to (a compound). 17. To change to a metallic state by removing nonmetallic constituents; smelt. 18. To simplify the form of (an expression, such as a fraction) without changing the value. 19. To restore (a fractured or displaced body part) to a normal condition or position. 20. To become diminished. 21. To lose weight, as by dieting. 22. To undergo meiosis.
