Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. 2. (n.) 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. 3. (n.) To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort. 4. (n.) 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. 5. (n.) 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. 6. (n.) 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. 7. (n.) 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. 8. (n.) 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. 9. (n.) To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.

Multi-Version Concordance Reduce (13 Occurrences) 1 Corinthians 1:28 and the things which the world regards as base, and those which it sets utterly at nought--things that have no existence--God has chosen in order to reduce to nothing things that do exist; (WEY) Exodus 5:8 The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying,'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.' (See NAS NIV) Exodus 5:19 The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!" (See NAS NIV) Exodus 21:10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. (See NAS) Leviticus 26:22 I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate. (See NAS) Job 11:3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed? (See NIV) Job 24:25 If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?" (See NIV) Psalms 20:3 He doth remember all thy presents, And thy burnt-offering doth reduce to ashes. Selah. (YLT) Isaiah 41:15 See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems. (See NIV) Jeremiah 10:24 Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing. (See NIV) Jeremiah 25:14 For many nations and great kings shall reduce them to subjection also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands. (WBS) Jeremiah 27:7 And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his land also come, when many nations and great kings shall reduce him to servitude. (DBY) Jeremiah 30:8 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more reduce him to servitude. (DBY)