lessen suggests a decline in amount rather than in number. diminish emphasizes a perceptible loss and implies its subtraction from a total. reduce implies a bringing down or lowering. abate …

To reduce something is to make it smaller or lessen it in some way. Therefore, anything reduced is smaller than it was before. If you’re pedaling your way through Italy and hit a giant hill, you’ll …

If something is changed to a different or less complicated form, you can say that it is reduced to that form.

REDUCED definition: made smaller, lower, or less; diminished. See examples of reduced used in a sentence.

reduced circumstances the state of being poorer than you were before. People say ‘living in reduced circumstances’ to avoid saying ‘poor.

The double-sized moonroof is no longer being offered, and has been reduced to a conventional size that doesn't extend over the rear seats.

Synonyms for REDUCED: lowered, discounted, discount, moderate, wholesale, reasonable, fire-sale, inexpensive; Antonyms of REDUCED: high, valuable, expensive, costly, increased, …

to treat (something complicated) by analyzing smaller parts: reduced the problem to its essentials. to act in a destructive manner upon (a substance or object): Their house was reduced to …

You're reducing religion to a list of do's and don'ts. Her argument can be reduced to a few essential points.

To bring to a specified undesirable state, as of weakness or helplessness: disease that reduced the patient to emaciation; teasing that reduced the child to tears.