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REDUCES
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
5
pts
Big
5
pts
Super Big
5
pts
REDUCES is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.
REDUCES root REDUCE-s
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verb
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transitiveTo bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
- intransitiveTo lose weight.
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transitiveTo bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- to reduce a sergeant to the ranks
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transitiveTo humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- to reduce a province or a fort
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transitiveTo bring to an inferior state or condition.
- to reduce a city to ashes
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transitiveTo be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy).
- reduced to silence
- transitiveTo decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.
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transitiveTo add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- Formaldehyde can be reduced to form methanol.
- transitiveTo produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- transitiveTo simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- transitiveTo express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- transitiveTo convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
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transitiveTo convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
- transitiveTo perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- transitiveTo reform a line or column from (a square).
- transitiveTo strike off the payroll.
- transitiveTo annul by legal means.
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transitiveTo pronounce (a sound or word) with less effort.
- The first vowel of support is reduced to schwa by most English speakers.
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obsoletetransitiveTo translate (a book, document, etc.).
- a book reduced into English