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Decreased vs. Reduced — What's the Difference?

Decreased vs. Reduced — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Decreased and Reduced

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Decreased

To become or cause to become less or smaller, as in number, amount, or intensity.

Reduced

To bring down, as in extent, amount, or degree; diminish.

Decreased

The act or process of decreasing.

Reduced

To gain control of; subject or conquer
"a design to reduce them under absolute despotism" (Declaration of Independence).

Decreased

The amount by which something decreases.
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Reduced

To subject to destruction
Enemy bombers reduced the city to rubble.

Decreased

Simple past tense and past participle of decrease

Reduced

To bring to a specified undesirable state, as of weakness or helplessness
Disease that reduced the patient to emaciation.
Teasing that reduced the child to tears.

Decreased

Made less in size or amount or degree. Opposite of increased.

Reduced

To compel to desperate acts
The Depression reduced many to begging on street corners.

Decreased

Made less in size or amount or degree

Reduced

To lower in rank or grade; demote.

Reduced

To thicken or intensify the flavor of (a sauce, for example) by slow boiling.

Reduced

To lower the price of
The store has drastically reduced winter coats.

Reduced

To decrease the viscosity of (paint, for example), as by adding a solvent.

Reduced

To put in a simpler or more systematic form; simplify or codify
Reduced her ideas to a collection of maxims.

Reduced

To turn into powder; pulverize.

Reduced

To decrease the valence of (an atom) by adding electrons.

Reduced

To remove oxygen from (a compound).

Reduced

To add hydrogen to (a compound).

Reduced

To change to a metallic state by removing nonmetallic constituents; smelt.

Reduced

(Mathematics) To simplify the form of (an expression, such as a fraction) without changing the value.

Reduced

(Medicine) To restore (a fractured or displaced body part) to a normal condition or position.

Reduced

(Linguistics) To pronounce (a stressed vowel) as the unstressed version of that vowel or as schwa.

Reduced

To become diminished.

Reduced

To lose weight, as by dieting.

Reduced

(Biology) To undergo meiosis.

Reduced

Simple past tense and past participle of reduce

Reduced

Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.
The reduced prices in a summer sale

Reduced

Discounted in price.
The reduced goods at the sale

Reduced

(cookery) Of a sauce etc.: made more concentrated.
The chicken was served in a reduced red wine sauce.

Reduced

Made less in size or amount or degree

Reduced

Well below normal (especially in price)

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