f. azaltmak, indirmek, kısmak, küçültmek. The government has reduced taxes. (Hükûmet vergileri indirdi.)

To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size,
quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to
impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to
reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.

To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to
capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.

To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding,
pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder,
or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.

To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification,
etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and
terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or
vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in
astronomy; to reduce language to rules.

To change the form of a quantity or expression without
altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a
common denominator, etc.

To bring to the metallic state by separating from
impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to
combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron
is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from their ores; –
opposed to oxidize.

To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced
organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.