Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

reduce

/ɹɪˈd(j)us/ verb

Forms reduces reducing reduced

  1. verb (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower. “to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To lose weight.
  3. verb (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote. “to reduce a sergeant to the ranks”
  4. verb (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture. “to reduce a province or a fort”
  5. verb (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition. “to reduce a city to ashes”
  6. verb (transitive) To be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy). “reduced to silence”
  7. verb (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.
  8. verb (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen. “Formaldehyde can be reduced to form methanol.”

Synonyms

cut decrease lower abase abate belittle besmall bring down embase decrement diminish foreshorten lessen lilliputianize mince minimize shrink smallify disparage humble cut down cut back trim trim down trim back come down boil down scale down deoxidize deoxidise

Antonyms

enlarge increase add amplify augment dilate eke / eke out elevate embiggen enhance enlargen enrich blow up gain

Etymology

From Middle English reducen, from Old French reduire, from Latin redūcō (“reduce”); from re- (“back”) + dūcō (“lead”). See duke, and compare with redoubt.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. [Obs.]
  2. verb 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. "An ancient but reduced family." Sir W. Scott.

Etymology [L. reducere, reductum; pref. red- . re-, re- + ducere to lead. See Duke, and cf. Redoubt, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “reduce”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “reduce” (best matches first).

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