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Redaction
- noun - putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form
- the act of putting something in writing
Reddening
- verb - make red; "The setting sun reddened the sky"
- turn red or redder; "The sky reddened"
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
Redditive
- - Answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply; as, redditive words.
Redeeming
- verb - bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love"
- compensating for some fault or defect; "the redeeming feature of the plan is its simplicity"; "his saving grace was his sense of humor"
- convert into cash; of commercial papers
- exchange or buy back for money; under threat
- pay off (loans or promissory notes)
- restore the honor or worth of
- save from sins
- to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange
Redlining
- verb - discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood
- The term used for the maximum recommended engine speed on a motor vehicle and the indication of same on the rev counter
Reduction
- noun - any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent
- the act of decreasing or reducing something
- the act of reducing complexity
Reductios
- noun - (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction
Reductive
- adjective - characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment; "their views of life were reductive and depreciatory" - R.H.Rovere
Reduviids
- noun - a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals