Definition for Reducing:

• loss of excess weight ( as by dieting); becoming slimmer; " a doctor supervised her reducing"

Synonyms for Reducing:

• adj.

  •alleviating (adjective)
  • Palliating,
  • Alleviating,
  • moderating,
  • easing,
  • Mitigating,
  • Relieving,
  • Assuaging,
  • soothing,
  • Allaying.
  •extenuating (adjective)
  • Varnishing,
  • softening,
  • Whitewashing,
  • Condoning,
  • qualifying,
  • sanitizing,
  • Justifying.
  •melting (adjective)
  • thawed,
  • Liquefying.

• n.

  •abridgement (noun)
  • condensation,
  • brief,
  • compendium,
  • synopsis,
  • precis,
  • Diminishment,
  • digest,
  • outline,
  • curtailment,
  • diminution,
  • abstract,
  • conspectus,
  • cutting.
  •contraction (noun)
  • elision,
  • shrinking,
  • Shrivelling,
  • confinement,
  • compression,
  • withdrawal,
  • constriction,
  • tensing,
  • receding,
  • tightening,
  • confining,
  • Curtailing,
  • deflation,
  • decreasings,
  • elisions,
  • abridgment,
  • deflations,
  • recession,
  • Lopping,
  • withdrawing,
  • shrinkage,
  • dwindling,
  • drawing together,
  • deflating,
  • Evaporating,
  • Omitting,
  • narrowing,
  • omission,
  • Abridging,
  • evaporation.

• v.

  •abase (verb)
  • reduce,
  • humble,
  • demean,
  • belittle,
  • mortify,
  • shame,
  • humiliate,
  • disgrace,
  • dishonor.
  •abate (verb)
  • dull,
  • go with the flow,
  • slow,
  • quell,
  • lay back,
  • hang easy,
  • allay,
  • cool,
  • ebb,
  • cool it,
  • mellow out,
  • subside,
  • decline,
  • chill out,
  • let it all hang out,
  • take it easy,
  • let go,
  • wane,
  • unlax,
  • hang loose,
  • let up,
  • coast*,
  • slacken.
  •cheapening (verb)
  • degrading,
  • devaluating,
  • Cheapening,
  • debasing,
  • belittling,
  • devaluing,
  • marking down,
  • slashing.
  •curtailing (verb)
  • Discontinuing,
  • fragmenting,
  • minimizing,
  • shortening,
  • diminishing,
  • Abbreviating.
  •detracting (verb)
  • disparaging,
  • Abrading,
  • depreciating,
  • Decrying,
  • Derogating,
  • Discounting,
  • casting aspersion,
  • Detracting,
  • Defaming,
  • Maligning.
  •diluting (verb)
  • thinning,
  • Attenuating,
  • Diluting.
  •diminishing (verb)
  • lightening,
  • Compacting,
  • tapering,
  • shaving,
  • Culling,
  • Concentrating,
  • compressing,
  • contracting,
  • nipping,
  • draining,
  • pruning,
  • trimming,
  • eroding,
  • condensing,
  • decrementing,
  • Bobbing,
  • paring,
  • Truncating,
  • Depleting,
  • Cropping,
  • Weeding,
  • downgrading,
  • shearing.
  •discounting (verb)
  • underselling.
  •lightening (verb)
  • unloading.
  •lowering (verb)
  • Shriveling,
  • downsizing,
  • cutting down,
  • paring down,
  • dieting,
  • slimming down,
  • Foreshortening.
  •reduce (verb)
  • deflate,
  • subjugate,
  • beat down,
  • truncate,
  • chop,
  • Declass,
  • overpower,
  • bring,
  • impair,
  • nutshell,
  • recede,
  • undermine,
  • overcome,
  • cheapen,
  • cut back,
  • trim,
  • mark down,
  • downgrade,
  • wind down,
  • demerit,
  • dwindle,
  • turn down,
  • moderate,
  • slim,
  • break,
  • slow down,
  • Disrate,
  • drain,
  • lose weight,
  • vanquish,
  • take down a peg,
  • enfeeble,
  • roll back,
  • cripple,
  • depreciate,
  • Disgrade,
  • taper off,
  • ruin,
  • bear down,
  • force,
  • step down,
  • scale down,
  • bump*,
  • bring low,
  • dilute,
  • bankrupt,
  • crush,
  • depress,
  • pauperize,
  • take off weight,
  • tone down,
  • bant,
  • diet,
  • abase,
  • abridge,
  • go on a diet,
  • contract,
  • slash,
  • clip,
  • drive,
  • shave,
  • disable,
  • bust,
  • conquer,
  • master,
  • taper.
  •simplifying (verb)
  • refining,
  • factoring,
  • stripping,
  • Elucidating,
  • clarifying,
  • Simplifying,
  • purifying.
  •subtracting (verb)
  • Deleting,
  • Eliding,
  • Subtracting,
  • lowering,
  • docking,
  • Deducting.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • overwhelming.
  •flap
  • valve.
  •Other relevant words:
  • diminish,
  • Modifying,
  • Subduing,
  • stiffening,
  • curving,
  • terminate,
  • Quashing,
  • sickening,
  • depressing,
  • Abasing,
  • signing,
  • Annulling,
  • humbling,
  • damaging,
  • impoverish,
  • adulterating,
  • depletion,
  • apply,
  • snipping,
  • modify,
  • abbreviate,
  • swerving,
  • tailoring,
  • numbering,
  • Inflicting,
  • Depopulating,
  • falling,
  • decrement,
  • lessen,
  • repress,
  • curb,
  • voiding,
  • precipitating,
  • landing,
  • Avoiding,
  • debilitating,
  • disregarding,
  • enfeebling,
  • downing,
  • degrade,
  • relaxing,
  • subdue,
  • restrain,
  • fall,
  • Ceasing,
  • demote,
  • slowing,
  • deadening,
  • stretching,
  • Converting,
  • reducing agent,
  • cut,
  • Remitting,
  • Skipping,
  • issuing,
  • go down,
  • abating,
  • Sheering,
  • imposing,
  • Destroying,
  • Whittling,
  • Overturning,
  • quelling,
  • slenderizing,
  • accommodate,
  • editing,
  • relegate,
  • Manicuring,
  • Subverting,
  • rebate,
  • weakening,
  • ruining,
  • repressing,
  • abridgement,
  • hold,
  • Bating,
  • curtail,
  • tempering,
  • shorten,
  • Poring,
  • Snubbing,
  • focusing,
  • confine,
  • simplification,
  • reductions,
  • restrict,
  • Hacking,
  • cringing,
  • cutback,
  • inhibiting,
  • subtracting from,
  • Trending,
  • conquering,
  • make,
  • curbing,
  • weaken,
  • slewing,
  • Expurgating,
  • Nullifying,
  • Garnishing,
  • become,
  • Impairing,
  • Flinching,
  • reductive,
  • crushing,
  • abate,
  • dropping,
  • Blunting,
  • centralising,
  • Feeing,
  • Retrenching,
  • Damping,
  • Recoiling,
  • come down,
  • Funking,
  • restricting,
  • whittle down,
  • alter,
  • mastering,
  • regulate,
  • abatement,
  • depreciation,
  • rationalising,
  • replace,
  • fastening,
  • declension,
  • Subjugating,
  • demeaning,
  • decay,
  • pare,
  • constricting,
  • Ignoring,
  • Defeating,
  • Loping,
  • dampening,
  • limiting,
  • pushing,
  • deduction,
  • chastening,
  • overpowering,
  • Demoting,
  • use sparingly,
  • pressing,
  • reduces,
  • invalidating,
  • quailing,
  • slimming,
  • Prostrating,
  • dressing,
  • rationalizing,
  • suppress,
  • Sniping,
  • Dulling,
  • riveting,
  • centering,
  • debase,
  • descending,
  • Centring,
  • attenuation,
  • bind,
  • constrain,
  • cut down,
  • centralizing,
  • constraining,
  • lower,
  • discount,
  • bring down,
  • cushioning,
  • mortifying.

Paraphrases for Reducing:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    reduce, reduction.
  • Proper noun, singular
    reduce, reduction.
  • Noun, plural
    reduction.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    reduce, reduction.
  • Adverb
    reduce.
  • Verb, past tense
    reduction, decrease.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    slashing, reduction, lessening.
  • Verb, past participle
    lessened, diminished.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    lessens, reduction, decrease, decreases.
  • Verb, base form
    lessen, slash, decrease.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    diminished, minimizing, de-escalate, minimising, Mitigating.
  • Proper noun, singular
    restrictions, cutbacks, cutting, minimizing, Alleviating, minimize, Mitigating.
  • Noun, plural
    retrenchments, declines, efficiencies, drops, discounts, setbacks, cutbacks, downwards.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    lessening, cutting, minimizing, downsizing, shortening, diminishing, Bridging, minimize.
  • Verb, past tense
    Eliminated, minimised, received, summarized, minimize.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    receding, discouraging, Removing, Eliminating, Relieving, Enhancing, Eradicating, depressing, Suppressing, resurrecting, Counteracting, downgrading, increasing, undermining, Restraining, fewer, Deterring, Detracting, report, redressing, Facilitating, prejudice, rendering, underestimating, Sacrificing, countering, Reversing, de-escalating, improving, eroding, Reining, decommissioning, Correcting, ameliorating, hindering, Restoring, strategies, prevention, limiting, compressing, constraining, check, Checking, saving, relaxing, Hampering, processing, moderating, Overcoming, calculating, impeding, strengthening, Avoiding, Preventing, stopping, disappearing, worsening, disarmament, Simplifying, Reimbursed, deteriorating, Attenuating, depreciating, retreating, Destroying, Impairing, streamlining, dampening, exercising, resulting, Jeopardizing, speeding, affecting, causing, dwindling, subsiding, ensuring, understanding, lightening, offsetting, resolving, clearing, Diluting, confining, using, altering, costs, creeping, squeezing, Containing, Resisting, coming, determining, revising, defusing, returning, constricting, Combating, combatting, jeopardising, Achieving, softening, weakening, integrating, dismantling, inhibiting, Depleting, trimming, struggling, tightening, commuting, Territories, condemning, descending, leading, developing, Deleting, cushioning, solving, sending, tackling, turning, Stemming, scrapping, belittling, slowing, Realizing, Transforming, fighting, loosening, growing, losing, Relating, Abolishing, threatening, enabling, deciding, spending, Allaying, bring, bringing, Quieting, braking, Cropping, waning, Vehicles, Maintaining, Levelling, contracting, halting, bordering, calming, offloading, Dimming, minors, handling, leaving, vehicle, Managing, Carrying, Effecting, closing, wrestling, Allowing, programming, helping, Involving, laying, compromising, filling, Waiving, falling, taking, pushing, sinking, policy, Grants, dealing, eating, Smoothing, keeping, <, straining, moving, crossing, risk, Having, thinning, bearing, meeting, playing, 21, passing, 1999, name, getting, making, cutting, narrowing, downsizing, shortening, diminishing, Bridging, minimising, Mitigating.
  • Verb, past participle
    Curtailed, alleviated, shortened, mitigated, narrowed.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    diminishes, Addresses, mitigates, limits, fewer, declines, seeks, drops, calls.
  • Verb, base form
    diminish, curtail, shorten, relieve, ease, depress, downsize, lighten, constrain, attenuate, dampen, discourage, ameliorate, restrain, soften, erode, weaken, detract, defuse, reverse, impair, subtract, compress, dwindle, degrade, halve, allay, moderate, slacken, rein, trim, scorch, fall, abridge, de-escalate, stem, prune, diffuse, wane, deplete, close.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    decrease, minimize.
  • Proper noun, singular
    decrease, decreases.
  • Noun, plural
    decreases.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    narrowing, decrease.
  • Verb, past tense
    minimizing.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    dropping, minimizing, Alleviating.
  • Verb, base form
    minimize.

Reducing Sentence Examples:

• The first time the Granadians induced him to abandon it, promising a heavy ransom; the next time he commenced by reducing the neighbouring town of Algeciras, which was defended with great energy.

• Again he tries, and again, persistently but gradually reducing the blundering movements to the pattern of the copy, and so learning to perform the act of skill.

Homophones for Reducing:

• reticence, road gang, road sense, redshank, rat snake, retaking.

Hyponym for Reducing:

• n.

  • process
    chemical reaction, loss, reaction.