To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
To annul by legal means.
To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
To lose weight.
To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
To bring to an inferior state or condition.
To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
To strike off the payroll.
To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
To reform a line or column from (a square).
To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value.
To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.
To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.
An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.