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reduced

[ ri-doost, -dyoost ]

adjective

  1. made smaller, lower, or less; diminished:

    Individuals who experience depression have reduced levels of serotonin in their brains.

  2. Mathematics. noting a polynomial equation in which the second highest power is missing:

    The cubic equation x3 − 4x + 4 = 0 is reduced.



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Other Words From

  • non·re·duced adjective
  • qua·si-re·duced adjective
  • un·re·duced adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of reduced1

First recorded in 1620–30; reduce + -ed 2

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Example Sentences

In Scandinavian countries this discrimination has been dramatically reduced.

However, the Air Force is so strapped for people that the ratio has dropped below even that reduced level.

Continue to cook until the sauce has reduced by three quarters.

Twenty-one-and-a-half million students participate in free or reduced-price school lunch programs.

This leaves people with a history of anorexia and reduced bone density like me at high risk for fractures.

That, like the matches, had long ago been used up, and our discoverers were reduced to roasted biscuit-crumbs.

By its operation Gordon Wright, the most sensible man of our acquaintance, is reduced to the level of infancy!

Having reduced Punch to a second agony of tears Harry departed upstairs with the news that Punch was still rebellious.

That is, the number of them cut short, and reduced to few, shall flourish in abundance of justice.

A very few weeks flew over the head of the needy man, before he was reduced to the same pitiable straits.

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