reduce

rage, saukar da

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /rɪˈdjuːs/, SAMPA: /rI"dju:s/
• (US) IPA: /rɪˈduːs/, SAMPA: /rI"du:s/

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Verb

Plain form (yanzu) reduce

3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) reduces

Past tense (ya wuce) reduced

Past participle (ya wuce) reduced

Present participle (ana cikin yi) reducing

1. (transitive) If something is reduced, it has been brought down or made smaller. <> rage, saukar da, kwantar da.
   • Synonyms: shrink and decrease
   • Antonyms: enlarge, increase and stretch

   The new computer system should reduce the number of problems.

   This image is too large, could you please reduce the size?

   Eating well will reduce the risk of heart disease.

   Our time in the country was reduced to just a few days.

   Taxes have been reduced by 24 percent.

2. (transitive & intransitive) If you reduce a liquid, you boil it to make it thicker.
3. To bring to an inferior state or condition.

   to reduce a city to ashes

   and, verily, [ in time] we shall reduce all that is on it to barren dust! <> Kuma lalle Mũ, Mãsu sanya abin da ke a kanta (ya zama) turɓaya ƙeƙasasshiya ne. = kuma Mu ne za mu maida abin da yake kanta- kasar- ya zama faƙo busasshe --Qur'an 18:8

Related words

• reduced
• reduction
• reductionist
• reductionism
• reducible