Reducing Synonyms and Antonyms

Reduce in size; reduce physically
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slimming
  2. shrinking
  3. thinning
  4. slenderizing
Antonyms:
  1. increasing
  2. expanding
  3. enlarging
  4. gaining
Any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. reduction
  2. lowering
  3. lessening
  4. decreasing
  5. diminishing
  6. cutting-down
  7. shortening
  8. foreshortening
  9. condensing
  10. compressing
  11. paring down
  12. marking down
  13. discounting
  14. contracting
  15. downsizing
  16. shrinking
  17. shriveling
  18. dieting
  19. slimming down
To lower in rank or position
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. demoting
  2. bumping
  3. busting
  4. degrading
  5. downgrading
  6. abasing
  7. breaking
Narrow or limit
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. tightening
  2. curtailing
  3. shortening
  4. condensing
  5. abridging
  6. abbreviating
Be cooked until very little liquid is left
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. concentrating
To bring down, as in extent, amount, or degree; diminish.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decreasing

Words Related to Reducing

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Reducing Sentence Examples

  • Taking the density of iron to be 7.7, the factor for reducing the loss in ergs per c.cm.

  • Some experiments were next undertaken with the view of ascertaining how far magnetic changes of length in iron were dependent upon the hardness of the metal, and the unexpected result was arrived at that softening produces the same effect as tensile stress; it depresses the elongation curve, diminishing the maximum extension, and reducing the " critical value " of the magnetizing force.

  • They act as reducing agents, silver nitrate in the presence of ammonia being rapidly reduced to the condition of metallic silver.

  • The coffee producers of Sao Paulo and other states found that the appreciation in value of the milreis was reducing their profits, and they advocated this measure (at first with a valuation of 12d.) to check the upward movement in exchange.

  • President Campos Salles entered upon his tenure of office on the 15th of November 1898, and at once proceeded to initiate fiscal legislation for the purpose of reducing expenditure and increasing the revenue.

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