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réduction: reduction; discount
réductionnel: reductional
réductionnisme: reductionism
réductionniste: reductionist
réduflation: shrinkflation
réduire: to reduce; to cut (prices); to shorten (text); to reduce, scale down (pictures, etc.); to reduce (someone); to reduce (something); to reduce, set
réduire au silence: to reduce to silence, to silence
réduire en cendres: to burn to ashes, to reduce to ashes
réduire en miettes: to shatter, to smash, to blow to smithereens, to tear to pieces
réduire en poussière: to crush, to blow to smithereens
réduire la voilure: to shorten sail; to trim one's sails, to make cutbacks, to reduce costs and manpower
réduire à la portion congrue: to minimize, to cut, to reduce to practically nothing
réduire à néant: to wipe out, to annihilate; to dash, to shatter; to reverse, to nullify
réduire à sa plus simple expression: to reduce to its simplest form, to its simplest terms; to reduce to the bare minimum
réduit: a cubbyhole; a recess, a nook
réduplicatif: reduplicative
réduplication: reduplication
réduve: Any insect of the Reduviidae family
réel: real (reality)
réel: real (true, factual, not fictional); real (of a number)
réellement: really; genuinely; in fact
réem: reem
réembaucher: to rehire (workers)
réemploi: reuse; reemployment
réemployable: reemployable
réemployer: to reuse; to reemploy; to reinvest (money)
réenchérisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of réenchérir
réenfourcher: to get back on, to remount
réengagement: reengagement
réengager: to reengage; to take back up, take up again; to get back into; to put back in; to reenlist (in the army)
réengazonner: to returf
réenregistrer: to rerecord
réensauvagement: rewilding
réensemencement: resowing
réentendre: to rehear (hear again)
réenterrer: to rebury, bury again
réentonner: to strike up (etc) again
réentrant: reentrant (all senses)
réenvisager: to re-envisage
réer: to troat, cry, bellow, make noises
réescompte: rediscount
réessayer: to retry, to try again
réestimation: reestimation
réexamen: reconsideration; reappraisal
réexaminer: to reexamine
réexciter: to excite again
réexporter: to reexport
réexprimer: to re-express (express in a different, new way)
réexpédier: to reship, forward
réexpédition: reshipping; resending
réf: clipping of référence; ref (reference)
réfaction: recompense; atonement
réfection: refection; refashioning, restoration, on the basis of its etymology, of a word which has undergone phonetic erosion through regular sound laws; the word resulting from that process
réfectoire: refectory, dining hall, cafeteria
réflecteur: reflective
réflectif: reflective (all senses)
réflectivité: reflectivity
réflexe: reflex
réflexe: reflex
réflexibilité: reflexibility