French language

How to pronounce reduce in French?

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Type Words
Synonyms bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, trim, trim back, trim down
Type of lessen, minify, decrease
Has types spill, deflate, detract, downsize, inflate, knock off, quench, retrench, shave, shorten, slash, subtract, take away, thin, thin out
Verb group cut
Derivation reductive, reduction


reduce your daily fat intake.
Type Words
Synonyms melt off, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin
Type of turn, change state
Has types sweat off
Derivation reducing
Type Words
Synonyms boil down, concentrate, decoct
Type of diminish, lessen, fall, decrease


The sauce should reduce to one cup.
Type Words
Synonyms cut, dilute, thin, thin out
Type of weaken
Has types water down
Type Words
Synonyms abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, shorten
Type of lessen, minify, decrease
Has types bowdlerise, castrate, digest, bowdlerize, expurgate, shorten, condense, concentrate
Verb group cut, edit, edit out
Type Words
Synonyms boil down, come down
Type of become, turn
Derivation reducible
Type Words
Synonyms keep down, quash, repress, subdue, subjugate
Type of oppress, suppress, crush
Type Words
Synonyms scale down
Type of shrink
Derivation reducible, reduction


reduce an image.
Type Words
Synonyms deoxidise, deoxidize
Type of change
Has types benficiate, pole
Derivation reducing, reductant, reducer
Type Words
Synonyms tighten
Type of limit, confine, trammel, throttle, bound, restrict


reduce the influx of foreigners.
Type Words
Synonyms boil down, concentrate
Type of lessen, minify, decrease


The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time.
Type Words
Synonyms shrink
Type of decrease, minify, lessen
Has types miniaturize, desolate, reef, downsize, scale down, contract, miniaturise, depopulate
Derivation reduction
Type Words
Type of break, bump, demote, relegate, kick downstairs


He reduced the population to slavery.
Type Words
Type of de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress
Has types obscure
Type Words
Type of impoverish


reduce one's standard of living.
Type Words
Type of degrade, demean, disgrace, put down, take down


She reduced her niece to a servant.
Type Words
Type of simplify
Has types abbreviate
Derivation reduction, reducible


reduce a problem to a single question.
Type Words
Type of reposition
Type Words
Type of interchange, replace, exchange, substitute
Derivation reducible
Type Words
Type of divide, part, separate


The cells reduce.