reduce

Cut down on; make a reduction in.

“reduce your daily fat intake”

Narrow or limit.

“reduce the influx of foreigners”

Cook until very little liquid is left.

“The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time”

Reduce in size; reduce physically.

Bring to humbler or weaker state or condition.

“He reduced the population to slavery”

Destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it.

Lessen and make more modest.

“reduce one's standard of living”

Lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation.

“She reduced her niece to a servant”

Make less complex.

“reduce a problem to a single question”

Reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site.

Simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another.

Take off weight.

Undergo meiosis.

“The cells reduce”

Be cooked until very little liquid is left.

“The sauce should reduce to one cup”

Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture.

Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.

Be the essential element.

Put down by force or intimidation.

Make smaller.

“reduce an image”

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.