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    1. Our tribe was created with one single purpose, to help reduce al


    2. Now, here is my realistic and simple way of understanding what you should reduce in your diet


    3. Cut the crap! Cut the crap out of your life! Reduce it


    4. Studies have suggested that walking at a brisk pace for three or more hours a week can reduce our risk for coronary heart disease by 65 percent


    5. · Regular, active exercise such as swimming and running, raises our heart rate and may greatly reduce hardening and blockage of the arteries, a condition known as arteriosclerosis that is a major cause of heart disease and stroke


    6. Learn to enjoy soft music to reduce stress and feel at peace with the environment


    7. · Gradually reduce the salt intake to about a third of previous level


    8. This will severely reduce the snail population almost immediately, and should be done several times before planting


    9. Ninth Month: Reduce the use of chemical fertilizers by one-half again, and increase your organic fertilizer/compost


    10. With this sort of mind-set, retiring, changing jobs, or moving to a smaller place are not likely to significantly reduce stress levels – the stress will be there whether it is imposed externally, or whether you have to manufacture it

    11. It was developed to help reduce inflammation, promote healthy circulation and healing, and alleviate pain and because of its strong odors will repel most insects as well as keep them from eating your plants


    12. The answer here is to control and keep fleas out of the house and off the pets and to reduce them


    13. The first thing you have to do is to reduce their population ASAP


    14. “ The first thing you have to do is to reduce their population ASAP


    15. Reducing stress will reduce pest attacks


    16. Reduce the sources of infestation and you will have a good hold on the fly population


    17. Give Caesar his Due: Feeding the ants will reduce their activity in other parts of their kingdom(our yard and house)


    18. Hammaker says the only way to stop the glaciers from knocking down our back doors within this generation or next, is to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, reforest the cities and the country side


    19. Adding some rock dust to kitchen waste will help reduce smells and fly’s, and will also increase microbial activity


    20. Then reduce to 5 capfuls per gallon

    21. The bone, full of air bubbles inherited from the creature’s flying ancestors to reduce


    22. "I want to reduce the data from a hundred probes," Victoria said, "We should pepper the planet with probes, we should learn what's different and what's the same about the different bio-regions of this planet


    23. I was feeling a bit rough – I’ve got some medicine to reduce the effect of migraine but it doesn’t stop it completely


    24. The bone, full of air bubbles inherited from the creature’s flying ancestors to reduce weight and density, skittled across the stone floor and came to rest by MacKenzie’s bare feet


    25. reduce to fits of vehement coughing till she coughed out


    26. Can you reduce your sleeping time? During this 28 day program, you will be reducing your sleeping time by one and a half hours a day


    27. to reduce acne scars and the occurrence of acne


    28. You want to reduce that abdomen don’t you ? Then do please remember that there is no hurry at all in this exercise, and the slow s-l-o-w lowering of the legs is precisely what strengthens, tones, exercises, and reduces those flabby abdominal muscles and helps to reduce fat in this area


    29. This one will keep your spine healthy and supple, reduce abdominal fat, tone up sluggish bowels, and slim your waist


    30. Her outer layers were crawling away from her inner core, and with each repetition of the circle she tried desperately to make herself smaller and smaller, until she could reduce her presence in the world no more

    31. This technique can be incredibly empowering because you reduce the size and magnitude of your fear by realizing that you can handle the things you would otherwise shy away from


    32. would reduce the Heart-Wall by an entire foot


    33. To reduce or eliminate the contact of one thing to another


    34. reduce her presence in the world no more


    35. would be arduous, but would reduce the trip by at


    36. reduce the chances of a rebellion,” Anastasia explained


    37. crush them, and reduce the hill to


    38. kilometres of travelling and reduce stress for the poor


    39. If in such a country the wages off labour had ever been more than sufficient to maintain the labourer, and to enable him to bring up a family, the competition of the labourers and the interest of the masters would soon reduce them to the lowest rate which is consistent with common humanity


    40. The lowest class being not only overstocked with its own workmen, but with the overflowings of all the other classes, the competition for employment would be so great in it, as to reduce the wages of labour to the most miserable and scanty subsistence of the labourer

    41. Such a difference of prices, which, it seems, is not always sufficient to transport a man from one parish to another, would necessarily occasion so great a transportation of the most bulky commodities, not only from one parish to another, but from one end of the kingdom, almost from one end of the world to the other, as would soon reduce them more nearly to a level


    42. The great stocks employed in every branch of trade, and the number of rich competitors, generally reduce the rate of profit in the former below what it is in the latter


    43. would quickly reduce the price of their labour


    44. before he can venture to reduce them to the common level


    45. same increase of competition would reduce the profits of the masters, as well as the wages of


    46. reduce the whole manufacture into a sort of slavery to themselves, and raise the price of their


    47. together, in order to reduce the wages of their workmen, they commonly enter into a private


    48. Those remoter counties, they pretended, from the cheapness of labour, would be able to sell their grass and corn cheaper in the London market than themselves, and would thereby reduce their rents, and ruin their cultivation


    49. The use of the artificial grasses, of turnips, carrots, cabbages, and the other expedients which have been fallen upon to make an equal quantity of land feed a greater number of cattle than when in natural grass, should somewhat reduce, it might be expected, the superiority which, in an improved country, the price of butcher's meat naturally has over that of bread


    50. who could reduce everyone to laughter at will; and









































    1. promoted at work for instance or even winning The X-Factor – are now drastical y reduced


    2. It is through this balance that the stress of the plant is reduced


    3. Reduced stress always equals reduced pests/disease


    4. By the end of the first year you should have reduced your chemical usage by 80 percent


    5. And Harvard University researchers have reported that people with an optimistic outlook also have a reduced risk of heart disease


    6. While the government has reduced ‘license raj’ in many areas, corruption is still rampant in most areas


    7. For small investors the Mutual Funds is a safe avenue to play this game from sideline with very much reduced risk


    8. As we grew old, the contact reduced to sometimes in dire need


    9. The panip slices were reduced to chips by the time the karga was ready


    10. By three in the afternoon, I’m reduced to watching daytime TV

    11. and Hell reduced to carbon ashes? The inventiveness of the torturer? Elevation to an


    12. his body was reduced to a heap of bones covered with skin with a huge


    13. This is the reign of Herod: 10 percent have all the wealth and all the power, and the masses are reduced to unbearable poverty


    14. I was reduced to staring at all the unlikely tabloid nonsense, vapid autobiographies and visiting every nook and searching every cranny of the concourse in trying to while away the time


    15. Miss Jones and her ancient familial home now stood in much reduced status in the middle of this quiet and genteel suburban sprawl


    16. She stood stoney-faced, unyielding, holding the door ajar until they gave in and filed outside, reduced to being naughty boys


    17. The sampling interval can be reduced to the limits of our equipment and it still looks like an analog trace


    18. Gingerly I move my head and find that the pounding has now reduced to a vague ache


    19. He was pretty much reduced to calling it a hunch


    20. We stand there in the back lobby for ages, but eventually, when my sobs have reduced to sniffles, she leads me into the kitchen and sits me down, going over and putting the kettle on to boil

    21. than made up for his reduced height by some impressive lateral


    22. Soon the gap reduced to zero


    23. It has severely reduced the male population and apparently is now affecting the females and the continuation of their species


    24. act of kindness also reduced his nose to a more normal size, and he


    25. reduced status in the middle of this quiet and genteel suburban


    26. 'It was reduced from over £100 to £50


    27. and mortalities had reduced them to this paltry dynastic


    28. products from your country was reduced


    29. Movement was reduced to a


    30. “Although the exertion can be considerably reduced if you can use

    31. Somehow she managed to instil the last few words with a meaning which reduced the conviction of her brother for child abuse, the deaths of two men and a woman, and the resultant comatose state of her daughter to an event which was purely and simply intended as a disruption of her life


    32. reduced to a faint shuffle of occasional feet; Christmas trees, once the center of


    33. Will that be satisfactory?” Harry nodded his astounded responses more that one day than he'd ever remembered being reduced to such nonverbal communication before


    34. did receive it they reduced it from


    35. The icicles on tree limbs reduced themselves to wet


    36. Visibility is reduced to zero


    37. nights and the reduced cost for staying six


    38. The line of defenders was reduced to a ring


    39. Want, famine, and mortality, would immediately prevail in that class, and from thence extend themselves to all the superior classes, till the number of inhabitants in the country was reduced to what could easily be maintained by the revenue and stock which remained in it, and which had escaped either the tyranny or calamity which had destroyed the rest


    40. It was reduced to six per cent

    41. In 1720, interest was reduced from the twentieth to the fiftieth penny, or from five to two per


    42. of Mr Laverdy, it was reduced to the twenty-fifth penny, or to four per cent


    43. In the greater part of our colonies, accordingly, both the legal and the market rate of interest have been considerably reduced during the course of the present century


    44. With blades empowered by silver and the strength of their rage, they did what came naturally, and together, their twenty-one axes reduced hundreds to ash


    45. two afterwards, when the competition had probably somewhat reduced both the price of their


    46. The value of silver was so much reduced, that their produce could no longer pay the expense of working them, or replace, with a profit, the food, clothes, lodging, and other necessaries which were consumed in that operation


    47. But the silver mines of Peru are not now able to pay even this low rent; and the tax upon silver was, in 1736, reduced from one fifth to one tenth


    48. The reader will find at the end of this chapter all the prices of wheat which have been collected by Fleetwood, from l202 to 1597, both inclusive, reduced to the money of the present times, and digested, according to the order of time, into seven divisions of twelve years each


    49. The rest of the defenders seemed to move like lead, ambling to the portal, their jewel encrusted weapons reduced to crutches in their feeble hands


    50. Nathalia kept up with two, three, sometimes even four at a time, but her blades had been reduced to shields, darting in all directions to parry a multitude of blows while every second, a score of her companions were cleaved in half, cut down by the demons' blades as though the wolf helmed beings were reaping wheat














































    1. Saliva production also reduces causing dry mouth and difficult mastication and swallowing


    2. High energy soil provides greater balance that reduces stress and reduces the pest activity


    3. reduces to the same thing in the


    4. The Kid and the others, Matthew and Mark as I have come to call them as the misting of memory reduces them in my mind’s eye, the ones who spoke about their God and their belief, they all tried to impress on me the truth of love and vengeance


    5. Uses l-ascorbic acid as its primary ingredient, combined with zinc sulphate and L-tyrosine, making the skin firmer, and reduces deep lines, which gives the skin a more youthful


    6. You want to reduce that abdomen don’t you ? Then do please remember that there is no hurry at all in this exercise, and the slow s-l-o-w lowering of the legs is precisely what strengthens, tones, exercises, and reduces those flabby abdominal muscles and helps to reduce fat in this area


    7. Hauling my mantel back over my shoulders, I watch as he folds the tent and reduces it to an absurdly small package which he stows in a bag on Adamant’s back


    8. ‘What? The fact that I’m mid thirties and that this reduces the chance of us being able to have children?’ I replied cottoning on to his implied question


    9. It sinks the price of coloured silks and cloths, and thereby reduces the profits of the merchants who have any considerable quantity of them upon hand


    10. the competition reduces them to the level of other trades

    11. necessarily reduces the profit


    12. What is there called the quintal, weighs from a hundred and fifty to two hundred Paris pounds, or a hundred and seventy-five Paris pounds at a medium, which reduces the price of the hundred weight English to about eight shillings sterling; not a fourth part of what is commonly paid for the brown or muscovada sugars imported from our colonies, and not a sixth part of what is paid for the finest white sugar


    13. The great quantity of silver sent annually to the East Indies reduces, he supposes, the quantities of those metals which remain in Europe to the proportion of one to fourteen or fifteen, the proportion of their values


    14. Whatever reduces the real price of the latter, raises that of the former


    15. It restrains the circulation of each particular company within a narrower circle, and reduces their circulating notes to a smaller number


    16. Everyday that goes by, reduces the chance that they will still be


    17. If a purpose leads to happiness, or at least contributes to happiness, how does it do that? For one thing, purpose can promote happiness if it reduces the number of concerns on which you focus your attention


    18. Yoga Nidra (“yogi sleep”) is a form of meditation that reduces tension and anxiety


    19. * Plasticizer reduces the


    20. However at not enough quantity of mixing water in concrete mixture influence of the raised temperatures slows down process of hydration and reduces strength of concrete

    21. Modulus of elasticity of concrete reduces with exposure dose increases because of accumulation of structural defects in aggregates and cement stone


    22. At positive temperature seasoning reduces to 1 months at conditions of subsequent grinding of wood into chips


    23. At that lime content reduces in the mix approximately in 2-3 times


    24. The limit imposed by ourselves indirectly reduces our capacity to love others


    25. A carrot a day reduces stroke risk by 68 percent


    26. Other research shows that the pectin in apples reduces the risk of colon cancer and helps maintain a healthy digestive tract


    27. In a study meant to reveal therapeutic value of carrots researchers at the Wolfson Gastrointestinal Laboratory in Edinburgh, Scotland revealed that cholesterol level reduces by 11 percent if seven ounces of raw carrots a day is taken for three weeks


    28. Since regular consumption of carrots reduces cholesterol level it is good to prevent heart related problems


    29. That part of the produce of the land which is thus necessary for enabling the farmer to continue his business, ought to be considered as a fund sacred to cultivation, which, if the landlord violates, he necessarily reduces the produce of his own land, and, in a few years, not only disables the farmer from paying this racked rent, but from paying the reasonable rent which he might otherwise have got for his land


    30. “As I understand,” he continued, “Sebastian’s new method also reduces some of the more challenging aspects of our service

    31. When the ordinary price of any particular produce of land is at what may be called a monopoly price, a tax upon it necessarily reduces the rent and profit of the land which grows it


    32. Reduces perspiration within 2 hours of use with its effects lasting several days:


    33. Bringing up that lagging muscle reduces the


    34. As said it is a risky business to sue without excellent cause in Africa for it reduces the amount of summonses being issued in theory


    35. It reduces productivity growth rates by inhibiting innovation and capital formation


    36. “And so the field reduces,” he mused


    37. It offers full performance when you are using your PC and reduces energy consumption when your computer is idle


    38. Ideally, you’d like to have as little of the non-essential processes as possible because having too many running processes reduces your PCs speed


    39. This reduces wear and tear, noise, and improves perfor-


    40. It reduces the losses and risk and makes it easy to leave overnight if needed

    41. The reduction in muscle tension reduces tension in the jaws


    42. The reduced tension in the jaws reduces the habit of clenching and grinding


    43. the general government at once of all the powers of the State governments, and reduces us to a single


    44. In case it doesn’t sell its production, it loses other million when it reduces human investment, infrastructural installation or closing of the company


    45. Also, it reduces the financial cost of the country, corporations and of the individuals because they don’t need more to ask lent money to render services or to enjoy the produced wealth


    46. I promise you that you will sense Elior again when the pain reduces


    47. It reduces the power of the brain that can be used for daily tasks


    48. With this, it integrates the knowledge, it reduces


    49. Common sense is the facility which reduces injury along with fear


    50. Without our trust and demands, our free will reduces their power to help us






























    1. In females a hormone (oxytocin) plays a key factor in reducing the response to stress


    2. During the next few years you should work on reducing the chemicals used by ••• then eventually not using any chemicals at all and be 100% Organic! Any problems your plants may have can be treated with the appropriate organic controls; some of which are mentioned in this book


    3. Reducing stress levels in these cases, then, requires not an elimination of stressful situations (which is impossible), but a change in the way stress is handled


    4. This fungus interferes with photosynthesis, reducing the energy level of the plants being attacked


    5. Reducing stress will reduce pest attacks


    6. It is possible to plan an optimum diversification thus reducing the risk


    7. My anger dissolved, reducing, becoming a sullen undertow rather than a raging torrent


    8. Can you reduce your sleeping time? During this 28 day program, you will be reducing your sleeping time by one and a half hours a day


    9. A daily dose of vitamin A is proven to be an effective way of reducing the appearance of


    10. reducing the shape of eyes and the depth

    11. In addition to toning and strengthening the abdominal muscles and reducing excess fat this exercise also helps to relieve constipation so it is doubly beneficial to the would-be-slimmer


    12. home under protest, reducing the group to eleven


    13. She confirms Alex’s impression, reducing the conversation to a formally official negative


    14. Sounds very educational to me, however, that aside, it could be good for Abi, reducing the sense of separation from her parents


    15. decreased substantially, reducing the distance between the two sides to about half


    16. perceived power the abuser has over them, reducing


    17. violent reductions of interest was to prepare the way for reducing that of the public debts ; a


    18. At the War of Lock Core, Drau'd had faced similar beings, and with the power of Hell's Bane he was able to defeat them, though only by reducing their bodies to mush


    19. But had this superabundance been real, it would, without any order of council, have effectually prevented the plantation of new vineyards, by reducing the profits of this species of cultivation below their natural proportion to those of corn and pasture


    20. - Between 1630 and 1640, or about 1636, the effect of the discovery of the mines of America, in reducing the value of silver, appears to have been completed, and the value of that metal seems never to have sunk lower in proportion to that of corn than it was about that time

    21. It would not only have reduced the actual value of the greater part of the lands in the kingdom, but by reducing the price of the most important species of small cattle, it would have retarded very much its subsequent improvement


    22. She couldn’t find any of the plants that Mother used for reducing pain and swelling


    23. Thirdly, of the improvements of land, of what has been profitably laid out in clearing, draining, inclosing, manuring, and reducing it into the condition most proper for tillage and culture


    24. By reducing the rate of interest, therefore, from ten to five per cent


    25. Once you locate the ‘blockages’ in your business that are reducing sales, then


    26. shouldn't think out loud when reducing fractions or word


    27. They were generally at the same time erected into a commonalty or corporation, with the privilege of having magistrates and a town-council of their own, of making bye-laws for their own government, of building walls for their own defence, and of reducing all their inhabitants under a sort of military discipline, by obliging them to watch and ward; that is, as anciently understood, to guard and defend those walls against all attacks and surprises, by night as well as by day


    28. By granting them magistrates of their own, the privilege of making bye-laws for their own government, that of building walls for their own defence, and that of reducing all their inhabitants under a sort of military discipline, he gave them all the means of security and independency of the barons which it was in his power to bestow


    29. Lean cattle, therefore, could only be imported; and such importation could interfere not with the interest of the feeding or fattening countries, to which, by reducing the price of lean cattle it would rather be


    30. First, the tax in Spain, the prohibition in Portugal of exporting gold and silver, and the vigilant police which watches over the execution of those laws, must, in two very poor countries, which between them import annually upwards of six millions sterling, operate not only more directly, but much more forcibly, in reducing the value of those metals there, than the corn laws can do in Great Britain

    31. Another way of looking at the work of the ancient masters is, instead of reducing the Tao to the level of human understanding, their teaching tried to bring human awareness into the Tao


    32. Buddhism emphasizes the same goal as yoga, reducing the power of attachments to self-centered desires as a way to obtain nirvana


    33. “Understanding the world for a man is reducing it to the human, stamping it with his seal


    34. Likewise, the mind that aims to understand reality can consider itself satisfied only by reducing it to terms of thought


    35. Sprouted pulses are also very good for reducing weight


    36. The deception is truly an act of benevolence aimed at reducing any trauma or shock a spirit might encounter upon entering a new environment


    37. When you move to or from the whiteboard, for example, you can move fast or slowly, raising or reducing the dynamism within the audience


    38. Along with steel fibrous concrete there is positive experience of application of glass-fiber reinforced concrete (glass-fiber reinforced cement) that allows reducing additionally weight of constructions


    39. Cracks between the sections of rock had been reducing in width for some distance but now they were also gradually filling with a fine gravel


    40. If mean and improper persons are frequently appointed trustees ; and if proper courts of inspection and account have not yet been established for controlling their conduct, and for reducing the tolls to what is barely sufficient for executing the work to be done by them ; the recency of the institution both accounts and apologizes for those defects, of which, by the wisdom of parliament, the greater part may, in due time, be gradually remedied

    41. 18, reducing the fine for admission to twenty pounds for all persons, without any distinction of ages, or any restriction, either to mere merchants, or to the freemen of London; and granting to all such persons the liberty of exporting, from all the ports of Great Britain, to any port in Turkey, all British goods, of which the exportation was not prohibited, upon paying both the general duties of customs, and the particular duties assessed for defraying the necessary expenses of the company ; and submitting, at the same time, to the lawful authority of the British ambassador and consuls resident in Turkey, and to the bye-laws of the company duly enacted


    42. The AI insisted they approach the last few thousand kilometres at a constantly reducing speed, the gravimetric readings were now off the scale


    43. This prohibition has, in some cases, entirely prevented, and in others has very much diminished, the importation of those commodities, by reducing the importers to the necessity of smuggling


    44. So far as the free importation of the necessaries of life reduced their average money price in the home market, it would reduce the money price of labour, but without reducing in any respect its real recompence


    45. By increasing the duties upon malt, and reducing those upon the distillery, both the opportunities and the temptation to smuggle would be diminished, which might occasion a still further augmentation of revenue


    46. Reducing it to only a numb ache


    47. Pelham, the interest of the public debt was reduced, or at least measures were taken for reducing it, from four to three per cent


    48. In 1862, the USS Wyoming was detached and sent to the East Indies thereby reducing the fleet by one fighting ship


    49. Ideal for protecting the digestive tract and reducing excess acid


    50. Even with the field effect reducing the













































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    Synonyms for "reduce"

    melt off reduce slenderize slim slim down thin cut dilute thin out tighten boil down concentrate decoct come down deoxidise deoxidize scale down shrink abbreviate abridge contract foreshorten shorten bring down cut back cut down trim trim back trim down keep down quash repress subdue subjugate defeat conquer overpower overcome suppress depose overthrow lessen diminish decrease abate attenuate degrade debase humiliate lower depress abase

    "reduce" definitions

    cut down on; make a reduction in


    make less complex


    bring to humbler or weaker state or condition


    simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another


    lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation


    be the essential element


    reduce in size; reduce physically


    lessen and make more modest


    make smaller


    to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons


    narrow or limit


    put down by force or intimidation


    undergo meiosis


    reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site


    destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it


    reduce in scope while retaining essential elements


    be cooked until very little liquid is left


    cook until very little liquid is left


    lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture


    take off weight