reduce

/rɪˈdjuːs/

意味: 減らす

例文: Kai reduced sugar in his diet.
　　  カイは食事の砂糖を減らした。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: reduce waste(廃棄物を減らす), reduce cost(コストを削減する), reduce speed(速度を落とす)

定義: 何かを少なくする、または小さくすること。たとえば、量、サイズ、価格などを減らすことを指します。環境問題や経済的な状況でよく使われる言葉です。

reduceは約20,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Verb: cut down on; make a reduction in
Verb: make less complex
Verb: bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
Verb: simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
Verb: lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
Verb: be the essential element
Verb: reduce in size; reduce physically
Verb: lessen and make more modest
Verb: make smaller
Verb: 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
Verb: narrow or limit
Verb: put down by force or intimidation
Verb: undergo meiosis
Verb: reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
Verb: destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
Verb: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
Verb: be cooked until very little liquid is left
Verb: cook until very little liquid is left
Verb: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
Verb: take off weight

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

We need to reduce waste in our daily lives.(私たちは日常生活でゴミを減らす必要があります。)
The company plans to reduce its carbon emissions.(会社は炭素排出量を削減する計画です。)
Exercise can help reduce stress effectively.(運動はストレスを効果的に減らせます。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: reduce your daily fat intake
Verb: The employer wants to cut back health benefits
Verb: reduce a problem to a single question
Verb: He reduced the population to slavery
Verb: She reduced her niece to a servant
Verb: The proposal boils down to a compromise
Verb: Hot water will shrink the sweater
Verb: Can you shrink this image?
Verb: reduce one’s standard of living
Verb: reduce an image
Verb: reduce the influx of foreigners
Verb: The government quashes any attempt of an uprising
Verb: China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently
Verb: The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land
Verb: The cells reduce
Verb: The manuscript must be shortened
Verb: The sauce should reduce to one cup
Verb: The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
Verb: cut bourbon

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): abbreviate, abridge, boil down, bring down, come down, concentrate, contract, cut, cut back, cut down, decoct, deoxidise, deoxidize, dilute, foreshorten, keep down, lose weight, melt off, quash, reduce, repress, scale down, shorten, shrink, slenderize, slim, slim down, subdue, subjugate, thin, thin out, tighten, trim, trim back, trim down

Antonyms(反意語): blow up, expand, gain, oxidise, oxidize

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): become, change, change state, de-emphasize, decrease, demote, impoverish, oppress, reposition, restrict, separate, shrink, simplify, substitute, take down, weaken

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abate, abridge, acetylate, acidify, adjust, alkalinize, alkalize, americanize, ascend, assibilate, assimilate, assume, baffle, bankrupt, barbarize, be born, become, beggar, better, blunt, boil, boil down, break, break into, brutalize, burn, calcify, calm, calve, capacitate, carbonate, carbonize, carnify, caseate, catalyze, catch, catch on, change by reversal, change integrity, change magnitude, change posture, change shape, change state, change surface, chip, chondrify, citrate, clamp down, clinker, close, clot, cloud over, coke, collapse, come, come in, come round, come to, commute, complexify, conceive, concentrate, concretize, conjugate, contract, convert, cool, crack, crash, creolize, cripple, cross-fertilize, curdle, cure, cut, damage, dampen, darken, dawn, de-energize, de-escalate, deaden, decalcify, decarboxylate, decay, decelerate, decline, decrepitate, decrescendo, deepen, defervesce, deflate, dehumanize, democratize, denitrify, deoxidize, depopulate, depreciate, depress, desalinate, destabilize, detach, develop, devitalize, die, digest, dilute, dim, diminish, discolor, disengage, disjoin, dismember, dissimilate, dissolve, distill, downsize, draw the line, dress, drift, drop, drop off, dry, dull, dwindle, ease up, emaciate, emancipate, emasculate, empty, emulsify, enervate, enfeeble, equilibrate, erupt, esterify, etherify, etiolate, evaporate, explode, fail, fall, fall for, felt, feminize, fill, flip, flocculate, fluctuate, fly, fold, form, format, foul, freeze, frenchify, freshen, gain, gate, gel, gelatinize, gerrymander, get into, get worse, give way, glaze, go out, gradate, grow, gum, hamper, harden, have, heat, homogenize, hush, hydrate, hydrolyze, ice up, incandesce, indurate, industrialize, inhibit, integrate, introject, ionize, isomerize, keratinize, leave, liberalize, lighten, limit, liquefy, make, mark off, mature, mellow, miniaturize, minimize, mitigate, modernize, modify, mold, move, mutate, narrow, neutralize, normalize, nucleate, obsolesce, occult, opacify, open, ossify, overgrow, oversimplify, oxidise, oxidize, pall, pare, partition, pass, plasticize, play out, polarize, precipitate, prim, professionalize, promote, purify, rarefy, react, recede, receive, recombine, reduce, reef, reflate, regenerate, regress, rejuvenate, relax, remit, reorient, repress, restrain, resume, reticulate, retool, rise, roll, rule, salinate, saponify, secularize, segment, segregate, separate, sequester, settle, shade, shake, shallow, shear, shift, shorten, shrink, shrivel, sideline, slack, slake, smoothen, soften, solarize, solvate, sorb, sour, spot, stabilize, stagnate, steepen, stiffen, stratify, strengthen, subdivide, sublime, subrogate, suburbanize, suffocate, suffuse, superannuate, suppress, swing, synthesize, taper, temper, tense, thicken, thin, thin out, thrive, thrombose, tie, tighten, transaminate, transform, transpire, truncate, turn, turn down, turn on, ulcerate, unbrace, undergo, undulate, vanish, vascularize, vesiculate, vitrify, vulcanize, wake up, wane, warm, warm up, wash out, weaken, worsen, zonk out

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): abbreviate, benficiate, bowdlerize, contract, deflate, depopulate, digest, downsize, inflate, miniaturize, obscure, pole, quench, reduce, reef, retrench, shave, shorten, slash, spill, subtract, sweat off, take away, thin, thin out, water down

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: abbreviator, abridgement, abridger, concentrate, concentration, contraction, cutback, cutting, dilutant, dilution, reducer, reducible, reducing, reductant, reduction, reductive, repression, repressive, shortener, shrinkage, shrinking, subduer, thinner, thinning, trim

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): re

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1

Movies(映画): Frozen

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: