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Recurred
- verb - happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story"
- have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat"
- return in thought or speech to something
Recurved
- verb - curve or bend (something) back or down
- curved backward or inward
Recurves
- verb - curve or bend (something) back or down
Recusals
- noun - (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves
Recusant
- adjective - (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England
- Rebel
- refusing to submit to authority; "the recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate"- Mary W.Williams
- someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct
Recusing
- verb - challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law
- disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case
Reducent
- - Tending to reduce. -- n. A reducent agent.
Reducers
- noun - a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver
- pipefitting that joins two pipes of different diameter
Reducing
- verb - 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
- be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
- be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
- cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
- cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
- loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer; "a doctor supervised her reducing"
- lower in g
Reductio
- 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