reduce

englanti

~ by half vähentää puoleen

If the sauce is too thin, 'reduce'.

: Jos kastike on liian laihaa, 'keitä' sitä 'kokoon'.

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puhekieltä To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
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puhekieltä To lose weight.
puhekieltä To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
An ancient but reduced family. --w:Sir Walter Scott|Sir Walter Scott.
Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. --w:John Tillotson|John Tillotson.
Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears. -- w:John Milton|John Milton.
Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. --w:Nathaniel Hawthorne|Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(RQ:Schuster Hepaticae V)

puhekieltä To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
to reduce a province or a fort
puhekieltä To bring to an inferior state or condition.
to reduce a city to ashes
puhekieltä To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
puhekieltä To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
puhekieltä To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
puhekieltä To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
puhekieltä To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
puhekieltä To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").
It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
puhekieltä To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
puhekieltä To reform a line or column from (a square).
puhekieltä To translate (a book, document, etc.).

a book reduced into English