Reduce is valid Scrabble Word

Is reduce a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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6 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for REDUCE in dictionary:

VERB:

to diminish
make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size
become smaller or less in size, amount, or degree
boil (a sauce or other liquid) in cooking so that it becomes thicker and more concentrated
(of a person) lose weight, typically by dieting
make (a negative or print) less dense.
articulate (a speech sound) in a way requiring less muscular effort, giving rise in vowels to a more central articulatory position.
bring someone or something to (a worse or less desirable state or condition)
be forced by difficult circumstances into doing something desperate
make someone helpless with (shock, anguish, or amusement)

force someone into (obedience or submission)
change a substance to (a different or more basic form)
present a problem or subject in (a simplified form)
convert a fraction to (the form with the lowest terms).
cause to combine chemically with hydrogen
undergo or cause to undergo a reaction in which electrons are gained from another substance or molecule
restore (a dislocated part of the body) to its proper position by manipulation or surgery
besiege and capture (a town or fortress).
bring down, lower
cut down on; make a reduction in
make less complex
bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
be the essential element
reduce in size; reduce physically
lessen and make more modest
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
narrow or limit
put down by force or intimidation
undergo meiosis
reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
be cooked until very little liquid is left
cook until very little liquid is left
lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
take off weight

NOUN:

To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
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.
To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
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.
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.
To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.
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.
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.
To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.

Words related to REDUCE

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Words that contain REDUCE

reduced11 reducer10 reduces10 reducers11 unreduced13 photoreduce19 photoreduced21 photoreduces20

How to use REDUCE in a sentence

It should never be warmed in a saucepan, except on the principle of the bain marie, lest it should reduce too much, and become black and bitter.
To be fair, he also laid stress on proper management and hygiene as an effective way to reduce diseases.
This will, of course, still further reduce the cost of production.
If tasks were complained of as too heavy, the simplest recourse was to reduce the schedule.
If they admitted it at all among them, it would soon conquer them, and reduce them to a condition worse than that of the brute creation.
Again, by their fondness for paradox, they reduce all offences to the same dead level.
For instance, if thou wert to reduce the unseen world to the realm of creation, this would be an act of sheer blasphemy, and the converse would likewise be the essence of impiety.
If God could be conscious of sin, His infinite power would straightway reduce the universe to chaos.
Officers stationed at every corner and bend were doing their best to reduce it to some sort of order, but with little success.
By his French methods he would reduce the Widow to such a state of helplessness that she would consent to become his mistress.

Reduce your legislature to a convenient number for full, but orderly discussion.
But it would be gaining a great deal to reduce the executive head to thirteen, and to relieve themselves of those details.
And if you cut her off, see to it that she does not become the little Rome whose conquering arms shall reduce all the nations of the continent to her sway.
In 1836, the government having been defeated on a proposal to reduce the five per cents, he once more resigned, and never returned to official life.
The King of Denmark was now likewise joined by the King of Prussia, who seized this occasion to invade Hanover, and to reduce it to his own dominion.
Western, was to establish a new standard of value, and to reduce the value of one pound to fourteen shillings.
Were ministers then ready, they asked, to reduce the taxes? The defence of the bill was chiefly undertaken by Mr.
Unless the admiral wished to leave the injured ship to her fate, he was now forced to reduce the speed of the other two ships to six knots.
The Grand Lodge may, however, only approve in part, and may reduce the penalty inflicted, as for instance, from expulsion to suspension.
I tried to have the license raised from eighty-four dollars to one thousand dollars, hoping to reduce our twenty-four hundred saloons.
We must have the majority secured, however, in order to enable us to reach and to reduce the others.
The President, being a free-trader, would naturally have said, Reduce the duties.
If you have the big head others will help you to reduce it, but if you have the little head, they cannot help you.
The good man was far from being a popular preacher, and yet he could not reduce his discourses below the hour and a half.
It was reserved for later times to organise applause and reduce success to a system.
They reduce men to loose counters, merely for the sake of simple telling, and not to figures, whose power is to arise from their place in the table.
Partly as a matter of pride and partly for the interest of the paper, Miss Anthony was not willing to reduce expenses.
On the other hand he may reduce the intellectual and spiritual life to the lowest limit by giving the mastery to his physical appetites.
This does not reduce us all to one level, but leaves Him to settle what we do want.

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