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adjective

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as in lowered

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as in diminished

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verb

past tense of reduce
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as in demoted
to bring to a lower grade or rank was reduced from team captain to team member as punishment for his misbehavior on the court

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as in decreased
to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent you'll have to reduce the amount of money you spend on unnecessary purchases if you want to have any money left for retirement

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as in depressed
to diminish the price or value of a mortgage crisis that reduced homes to their lowest level in a decade

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Recent Examples of reduced
Adjective
At the Paks nuclear reactor, Hungary decided to reduce output to 25 percent in the wake of reduced water levels. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 17 Aug. 2026 This was a reduced version called by new offensive coordinator Nathan Scheelhaase, with minimal opponent-specific game planning and facing the Chiefs’ backups. — Nate Atkins, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026 Lenders offering programs like reduced and interest-only payments, forbearance and post-graduation grace periods scored best in this category. — Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2026 To qualify for reduced tuition, undocumented students must have attended a local high school for at least two years and applied to SUNY or CUNY within five years of graduation. — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026 Still, users can expect reduced latency and better network capacity from the device, although the Starlink dish itself usually offers max speeds up to 400Mbps plus. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026 The Kings have held discussions with Westbrook about a return to Sacramento in what would surely be a reduced role, but he hasn’t been linked to any other teams and remains unsigned more than a month into free agency. — Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2026 The starter hardens over time, which leads to hard-to-remove blockages in the pipes and a reduced pipe diameter. — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Aug. 2026 In a 2025 study of older parents, being cut off from an adult child was associated with poorer well-being and a reduced sense of purpose, as well as greater depressive symptoms. — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Verb
The company, which focuses on the athletic sports accessories industry, also reduced its full year revenue guidance. — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026 At all five, at least two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — well above the roughly 52% district average. — Austin Horn august 11, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2026 Tregenza’s imagistic fury doesn’t come at the expense of drama; his choreography is never reduced to a stunt, and the cast never appear constrained by the demands of timing and blocking. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026 Lister continued his protocol of hygiene and reduced surgical death rates from 45% to 15%. — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2026 The White Worm, who styled herself as a peacetime consigliere, is reduced to obsolescence by the promise of all-out war. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026 Over time, the same system that profited from his brilliance proved indifferent to his vulnerability, and his life became reduced to a singular narrative of addiction and demise. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2026 Where a ham and cheese or BLT can be reduced to the sum of their parts, a good veggie sandwich—especially one that is intended to be a meal, not a snack—requires some rumination. — Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Aug. 2026 Carpineti and Prescod-Weinstein and their interlocutors repeatedly trouble the notion that the universe can be reduced to binaries. — Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reduced
  1. lowered
  2. compressed
  3. demoted
  4. decreased
  5. depressed
  6. discounted
  7. condensed
  8. degraded
Adjective
  • The lowered rating comes after AppLovin posted mixed results for the second quarter and third-quarter profit guidance that missed expectations, sending shares lower by more than 16% in the premarket.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
  • That refusal to accept lowered expectations carried him to being Chairman of Nike’s Jordan Brand and leading the Portland Trail Blazers.
    — Laurel Donnellan, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of lowered
Adjective
  • The difference likely is multifold and surely part of a cumulative effect of compressed offseasons after playing 21 postseason games in the previous seven seasons.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The special primary, which took place just a month after Lindsey Graham's death, meant a compressed and sometimes chaotic campaign for the 10 candidates who ran to replace him.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of compressed
Verb
  • The lawsuit claimed that she was demoted to weekend desk shifts and, although she was told the assignment was temporary until a replacement was hired, no person was.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The individual responsible for the racist act was subsequently demoted and suspended for 48 hours without pay.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of demoted
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  • While gasoline demand has decreased, AAA says, citing data from the Energy Information Administration, supply and production also decreased.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • But while demand for the nifty two-seater has substantially decreased, the CX-5 has thrived.
    — James Raia, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of decreased
Verb
  • In addition, the way graduation rates are reported across BIE schools was changed to address flawed data collection that previously depressed the numbers.
    — Savannah Peters, Fortune, 13 July 2026
  • Rising costs of components, supply chain constraints, and weaker consumer demand that are all partly linked to the Iran war have depressed smartphone sales in much of the continent, resulting in the slowest growth of shipments to Africa in two years, research firm Omdia said.
    — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 8 June 2026
Definition of depressed
Adjective
  • Complete the set with more discounted loungewear in the same hue, including slim-straight pants or a barrel-leg version.
    — Nicol Natale, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
  • Backless loafers are having a moment, and leave it to Coach to offer one of the most stylish (and discounted) options to date.
    — Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2026
Definition of discounted
Adjective
  • While cake is cooling, whisk together cold water, sweetened condensed milk, and pudding mix in a large bowl until smooth.
    — Erin Merhar, Southern Living, 13 July 2026
  • The gallery presents a condensed history of blue-and-white ceramics globally in dishes, starting in the Middle East with a 9th century Iraqi piece.
    — Stephanie Shih June 17, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
Definition of condensed
Verb
  • China’s limited farmland has been degraded by overcultivation and excessive use of fertilizers, for instance.
    — Caitlin Welsh, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The filing argued the sequence of testing was critical because Othram's single nucleotide polymorphism, or SNP, testing requires DNA that has not already been depleted or degraded through prior analysis.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of degraded

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