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81reduce expenditure — lower the amount of money spent, reduce expenses …
82reduce to tears — If your behaviour or attitude makes someone cry, you reduce them to tears. The teacher criticized her presentation so harshly that she was reduced to tears …
83reduce someone to tears — довести до слёз You may choose to scold this child, but there s no need to reduce him to tears. Source: (Arakin 4, 15) …
84reduce someone to the ranks — demote a non commissioned officer to an ordinary soldier. → reduce …
85reduce someone to — make someone helpless with (shock, anguish, or amusement). → reduce …
86reduce someone/thing to — bring someone or something by force or necessity to (an undesirable state or action). → reduce …
87reduce something to — change something to (a simpler or more basic form). → reduce …
88reduce something to something — reˈduce sth to sth derived to change sth to a more general or more simple form • We can reduce the problem to two main issues. Main entry: ↑reducederived …
89reduce — verb /ɹɪˈdjuːs,ɹɪˈduːs/ a) To bring down the size, quantity, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair. Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our science to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish… …
90Reduce — Уменьшать; Ослаблять (фотографическое изображение); Восстанавливать; Разбавлять; смягчать (краску) …