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reduced

  • adjective
  • rĭ-do͞ostʹ

Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.

Example

“the reduced prices in a summer sale”

Other meanings

  1. Discounted in price.

    “the reduced goods at the sale”

  2. Of a sauce etc.: made more concentrated.

    “The chicken was served in a reduced red wine sauce.”

Synonyms

  • decreased

Related words

  • electroreduced
  • leucoreduced
  • leukoreduced
  • monoreduced
  • nonreduced
  • overreduced
  • prereduced
  • pseudoreduced
  • unreduced
  • reduced algebra
  • reduced time
  • reduced cat

Example sentences

  • “The deep crease in the centre of my forehead was dramatically reduced.”

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Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “reduced” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.