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reduce / reducir
reduce
A. -transitive verb
1. (=decrease)
[+number, costs, expenditure, inflation] reducir
[+price] rebajar (industry)
[+output] reducir, recortar
[+speed, heat, visibility] disminuir
[+temperature] bajar
[+stress, tension] reducir, disminuir
[+pain] aliviar
·it reduces the risk of heart disease (by 20%)
·disminuye el riesgo de enfermedades cardíacas (en un 20%)
·reduce speed now
·disminuya la velocidad
2. (=cut price of)
[+goods] rebajar
3. (=make smaller)
[+drawing] reducir (medicine)
[+swelling] bajar (culinary, cooking )
[+sauce] reducir
4. (=bring to specified state)
·to reduce somebody to [despair]
·llevar a somebody, someone a la desesperaciónoun
·to reduce somebody to tears
·hacer llorar a somebody, someone
·to be reduced to [penury]
·estar sumido en la miseria
·to reduce something to [ashes]/[rubble]
·reducir algo a cenizas/escombros
·to reduce somebody to [silence]
·hacer callar a somebody, someone
·we were reduced to begging on the streets
·nos vimos obligados a mendigar por las calles
5. (=capture, subjugate) tomar, conquistar
6. (military)
(=demote) degradar
·to reduce somebody to the [ranks]
·degradar a somebody, someone a soldado raso
7. (=simplify) reducir
·to reduce an argument to its simplest form
·reducir un argumento a su esencia
8. (mathematics)
[+equation, expression] reducir
9. (chemistry) reducir
B. -intransitive verb
1. (=decrease) reducirse, disminuir
2. (culinary, cooking ) espesarse
3. (=slim) adelgazar
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged and Audio Headword Pronunciation (Spanish) 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co Ltd. 1971,1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992,1993,1996,1997,2000,2003,2005.
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