Clues for the word "REDUCE"
We've had 46 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 86 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on May 19, 2026.
Definition of reduce
- n. - To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
- 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.
- n. - To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Referring Clues
- Truncate
- Decrease
- Discount
- Boil down
- One of the three R's of environmentalism
- Diet
- Bring down to size
- Cut down
- Truncate, e.g.
- Cut the fat
- Cut back
- Lose weight
- Cut
- Lessen
- Slim
- Make smaller
- Lower in degree
- Lower
- Part of an eco-friendly slogan
- Diet successfully
- Be a good loser?
- Lose some
- Mark down
- Turn down
- Marks down
- Lose on purpose?
- Make less
- Diminish
- What stores will do to poorly selling record's price
- Cut a key in crude fashion
- Pare
- Cut cherry, juicier with odd bits removed
- Colour purplish brown won't begin to be cut
- Miscue on a snooker ball and lose a pot?
- Take off pounds of either kind
- Lower colour on wrong cue
- Thin down colour on broken cue
- Cut in snooker ball with bent cue
- Reproduce without professional cut
- Lessen, decrease
- Catchword in waste management
- Make smaller or less
- ___, reuse, recycle
- Cut down to size
- Thicken a sauce
- With 31- and 43-Down, an environmentalist motto ... as suggested elsewhere in different ways in this puzzle
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - May 19, 2026
- New York Times - April 22, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 17, 2025
- Daily American - December 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 04, 2024
- Your Life Choices - July 27, 2024
- Mirror Mini - May 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - March 27, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 08, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - February 21, 2024
- Mirror Mini - February 03, 2024
- Daily American - December 09, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - October 06, 2023
- LA Times - July 25, 2023
- Mirror Mini - May 05, 2023
- LA Times - May 04, 2023
- Your Life Choices - April 17, 2023
- Mirror Mini - February 03, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - November 24, 2022
- USA Today - October 27, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - October 21, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - June 09, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - January 02, 2018
- Penny Dell Daily - December 27, 2017
- Daily American - December 09, 2017
- And in 56 more crossword puzzles...