Synonyms: decrease, lessen, diminish, ease, shrink, abridge, abate
Conjugation
| Indicative mood |
|---|
| Present tense | Past tense |
|---|
| (I) reduce | (I) reduced |
| (thou) reducest | (thou) reducedst |
| (he) reduces, reduceth | (he) reduced |
| (we) reduce | (we) reduced |
| (you) reduce | (you) reduced |
| (they) reduce | (they) reduced |
| Subjunctive mood |
|---|
| Present tense | Past tense |
|---|
| (I) reduce | (I) reduced |
| (thou) reduce | (thou) reduced |
| (he) reduce | (he) reduced |
| (we) reduce | (we) reduced |
| (you) reduce | (you) reduced |
| (they) reduce | (they) reduced |
| Imperative mood |
|---|
| reduce |
| Participles |
|---|
| Present participle | Past participle |
|---|
| reducing | reduced |
By contrast, the UK Office for Budget Responsibility, which produces economic forecasts for the government, expects Brexit to reduce Britain’s output by 4% over 15 years compared to if it had remained in the bloc.