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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