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n. - To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. ²
n. - To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat. ²
n. - To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort. ²
n. - To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp. ²
n. - To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules. ²
n. - To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours. ²
n. - To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc. ²
n. - To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; -- opposed to oxidize. ²
n. - To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia. ²

The word "reduce" uses 6 letters: C D E E R U.

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Words formed by adding one letter before or after reduce (in bold), or to cdeeru in any order:
d -   reduced   h -   euchred   l -   ulcered   r -   reducer   s -   recused   reduces   rescued   secured   seducer   t -   eructed   v -   decurve  

Shorter words found within reduce:
cede   ceder   cee   cere   cered   creed   crud   crude   cud   cue   cued   cur   curd   cure   cured   de   dee   deer   dere   deuce   dree   duce   due   dure   ecru   ecu   ed   educe   er   ere   re   rec   red   rede   ree   reed   rude   rue   rued   urd  

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