Scrabble & Words with friends points
- reduce is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 9
- reduce is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 9
- reduce is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 11
Definition of reduce
- cut down on; make a reduction in (verb)
Examples
- reduce your daily fat intake
Synonyms
- bring down
- cut
- cut back
- cut down
- trim
- trim back
- trim down
- take off weight (verb)
Synonyms
- melt off
- slenderize
- slim
- slim down
- thin
- be cooked until very little liquid is left (verb)
Examples
- The sauce should reduce to one cup
Synonyms
- boil down
- concentrate
- decoct
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture (verb)
Synonyms
- cut
- dilute
- thin
- thin out
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements (verb)
Synonyms
- abbreviate
- abridge
- contract
- cut
- foreshorten
- shorten
- be the essential element (verb)
Synonyms
- boil down
- come down
- put down by force or intimidation (verb)
Synonyms
- keep down
- quash
- repress
- subdue
- subjugate
- make smaller (verb)
Examples
- reduce an image
Synonyms
- scale down
- 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 (verb)
Synonyms
- deoxidise
- deoxidize
- narrow or limit (verb)
Examples
- reduce the influx of foreigners
Synonyms
- tighten
- cook until very little liquid is left (verb)
Examples
- The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
Synonyms
- boil down
- concentrate
- reduce in size; reduce physically (verb)
Synonyms
- shrink
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition (verb)
Examples
- He reduced the population to slavery
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it (verb)
- lessen and make more modest (verb)
Examples
- reduce one's standard of living
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation (verb)
Examples
- She reduced her niece to a servant
- make less complex (verb)
Examples
- reduce a problem to a single question
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site (verb)
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another (verb)
- undergo meiosis (verb)
Examples
- The cells reduce
See definition of reduce in Merriam Webster