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What is the verb for reduction?

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reduce
  1. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.
  2. (intransitive) To lose weight.
  3. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
  4. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
  5. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
  6. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
  7. (chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
  8. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
  9. (mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
  10. (logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form
  11. (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").
  12. (medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
  13. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
  14. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).
  15. Synonyms:
  16. Examples:
    1. “It would be beneficial for your health if you reduce the number of cigarettes you smoke daily.”
      “Cut off the edges of the rope to reduce its length.”
      “Could you reduce your talking points into a brief summary?”
reduct
  1. (obsolete, transitive) To reduce.
  2. (nonstandard) To duct tape again.
  3. (nonstandard) To channel through a duct again.
reduced
reducing
reduces
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reduce
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In summer, hot air is vented out this chimney, and a sedum-planted roof reduces heat gain.”
      “This relaxes muscles in the walls of blood vessels and reduces blood pressure.”
      “It also helps for eupepsia, and reduces constipation frequency and turinary bladder complications.”
reducts
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reduct
reduceth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reduce
reducest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of reduce
reducted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of reduct
reducting
  1. present participle of reduct
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