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soften
English
Etymology
From Middle English softenen, softnen, equivalent to soft +? -en.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?f?n/, enPR: s?f?en
- (US) IPA(key): /?s?f?n/, enPR: sôf?en
- (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /?s?f?n/, enPR: s?f?en
Verb
soften (third-person singular simple present softens, present participle softening, simple past and past participle softened)
- (transitive) To make something soft or softer.
- Soften the butter before beating in the sugar.
- (transitive) To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up).
- Before the invasion, we softened up the enemy with the artillery.
- (transitive) To make less harsh
- Having second thoughts, I softened my criticism.
- (intransitive) To become soft or softer
- The butter softened as it warmed up.
Derived terms
- soften the ground
- softener
Translations
See also
- mollify
- neshen
Anagrams
- Sefton
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reduce
English
Etymology
From Middle English reducen, from Old French reducer, from Latin red?c? (“reduce”); from re- (“back”) + d?c? (“lead”). See duke, and compare with redoubt.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???dju?s/, /???d?u?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???du?s/
- Rhymes: -u?s
Verb
reduce (third-person singular simple present reduces, present participle reducing, simple past and past participle reduced)
- (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- (intransitive) To lose weight.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- 1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering
- My father, the eldest son of an ancient but reduced family, left me with little.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Folly of Scoffing at Religion
- nothing so excellent but a man may falten upon something or other belonging to it whereby to reduce it .
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
- Having reduced their foe to misery beneath their fears.
- Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced.
- 1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering
- (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
- 2011, Edward Behr and James MacGuire, The Art of Eating Cookbook: Essential Recipes from the First 25 Years.
- Serve the oxtails with mustard or a sauce made by reducing the soup, if any is left, to a slightly thick sauce.
- 2011, Edward Behr and James MacGuire, The Art of Eating Cookbook: Essential Recipes from the First 25 Years.
- (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
- (transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
- (transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
- (transitive, Scotland, law) To annul by legal means.
- (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).
Synonyms
- (to bring down): cut, decrease, lower
- (cooking): inspissate; see also Thesaurus:thicken
Antonyms
- (to bring down): increase
Related terms
Translations
See also
- reducing agent
References
- reduce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin redux (“that returns”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?.du.t??e/
Adjective
reduce (plural reduci) (da)
- returning (from)
- Synonym: ritornato
Noun
reduce m or f (plural reduci)
- survivor
- Synonym: sopravvissuto
- veteran (of a conflict)
- Synonyms: veterano, ex combattente
Anagrams
- ducere
Latin
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /re?du?.ke/, [r??d?u?k?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re?du.t??e/, [r??d?u?t???]
Verb
red?ce
- second-person singular present active imperative of red?c?
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?re.du.ke/, [?r?d??k?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?re.du.t??e/, [?r??d?ut???]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?re.du.ke/, [?r?d??k?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?re.du.t??e/, [?r??d?ut???]
Adjective
r?duce
- ablative masculine singular of r??dux
- ablative feminine singular of r??dux
- ablative neuter singular of r??dux
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin reducere, French réduire, based on duce. Compare the inherited doublet ar?duce.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re?dut?e/, [re??d?ut?e?]
Verb
a reduce (third-person singular present reduce, past participle redus) 3rd conj.
- (transitive) to reduce, to lessen
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
- duce
See also
- ar?duce
Spanish
Verb
reduce
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of reducir.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of reducir.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of reducir.
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