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Definition of reduce : 1. 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. To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.

Synonyms:

issue, avoid, sign on, constrict, rationalize, swerve, flash back, knock down, rebate, master, slenderise, quail, trim down, stifle, get, ebb, curb, pull down, bust, increase, switch off, depress, invalidate, write out, defeat, down, push down, tail away, demote, burn, abase, tame, fell, curve, expurgate, center, inhibit, wince, cringe, slim, castrate, let down, garnish, quash, fasten, sign, subject, skip, boil down, shrivel up, abate, dishonor, humiliate, thin out, make out, snip, restrict, cut off, let up, funk, press, decoct, veer, nullify, suppress, cut down, bring low, go down, number, hack, drop, constrain, disgrace, surmount, undertake, focus, slim down, centralise, stiffen, void, tighten up, stamp down, muffle, turn off, deoxidize, subdue, subvert, peter, keep down, inflict, rise, impose, recoil, slue, pore, humble, conquer, ignore, geld, smother, land, rationalise, edit, strike down, trim back, tighten, mow, cast down, come down, bowdlerize, break, rivet, squeeze, crucify, slenderize, edit out, tailor, sheer, money, bump, write down, overturn, descend, sicken, wither, sign up, subordinate, get down, fall, bowdlerise, sink, slew, centralize, melt off, stretch, adulterate, trend, foreshorten, chasten, repress, get over, cut back, scale down, visit, subjugate, put down, precipitate, take down, disregard, narrow, squinch, snub, fat, mortify, turn out, centre, dress, lose weight, shrivel, cut out, annul, lop, long, digest, load, overthrow, take, bring down, deoxidise, flinch, overcome, strangle, discredit

fragment, diminish, minimize, shorten, decrease, discontinue, curtail, abbreviate

ease, allay, palliate, mitigate, moderate, relieve, alleviate, assuage, soothe

factor, purify, elucidate, clarify, refine, strip, simplify

dilute, attenuate, thin

unload

compress, downgrade, deplete, dwindle, decrement, shave, crop, erode, drain, nip, shrink, contract, truncate, prune, abridge, lighten, concentrate, weed, pare, condense, compact, bob, shear, taper, lessen, trim, cull, clip, deflate

devalue, degrade, mark down, slash, debase, devaluate, cheapen, belittle

undersell

defame, detract, abrade, malign, derogate, decry, cast aspersion, disparage, depreciate, discount

delete, dock, deduct, cut, elide, subtract, lower

Usage examples:

• You will not reduce me to silence, for Truth speaks in me and can never be dumb. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers.
• A man may reduce all the causes of faith- breaking to three heads. - "Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince", Niccolò Machiavelli.
• Hence, you note this fact: The pressure must be sufficiently intense to bring the melting point below the prevailing temperature, or there will be no melting; and the further we reduce the melting point by pressure below the prevailing temperature, the more ice will be melted. - "The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays", J. (John) Joly.