reduced

About 61.84 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb simple past and past participle of reduce
2. adjective Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.

   the reduced prices in a summer sale

3. adjective Discounted in price.

   the reduced goods at the sale

4. adjective Of a sauce etc.: made more concentrated.

   The chicken was served in a reduced red wine sauce.

5. adjective Of a relative clause: not marked by an explicit relative pronoun or relativizer such as who, which, or that.
6. adjective Of a vowel: relatively more centralised (as schwa or closer to it). See reduced vowel.

Similar words

diminished attenuate attenuated faded rock-bottom weakened bated shrunken shrivelled shriveled

Often followed by

to by the in from and or as their

Word family

reduce reducer reducers reduces reducibilities reducibility reducible reducibly reducing