- to take all the charge or pain out of an incident. This means to have the preclear recount the incident from beginning to end (while returned to it in reverie) over and over again, picking up all the somatics and perceptions present just as though the incident were happening at that moment. To reduce means, technically, to render free of aberrative material as far as possible to make the case progress. (DMSMH, p. 287)
- to render an engram free from somatic or emotion by recountings. (NOTL Gloss)