Definitions
1.verbTo bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower."to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc."
2.verbTo lose weight.
3.verbTo bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote."Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced."
4.verbTo humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture."to reduce a province or a fort"
5.verbTo bring to an inferior state or condition."to reduce a city to ashes"
6.verbTo decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
7.verbTo add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
8.verbTo produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
9.verbTo simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
10.verbTo express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
11.verbTo convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
12.verbTo 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."
13.verbTo perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
14.verbTo reform a line or column from (a square).
15.verbTo strike off the payroll.
16.verbTo annul by legal means.
17.verbTo translate (a book, document, etc.)."a book reduced into English"