reduce

1. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.Examples: "to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc."; "Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training."; "Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID."Synonyms: cut, decrease, lowertransitive

2. (intransitive) To lose weight.intransitive

3. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.Examples: "to reduce a sergeant to the ranks"; "My father, the eldest son of an ancient but reduced family, left me with little."; "nothing so excellent but a man may falten upon something or other belonging to it whereby to reduce it ."transitive

4. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.Examples: "to reduce a province or a fort"transitive

5. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.Examples: "to reduce a city to ashes"transitive

6. (transitive) To be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy).Examples: "reduced to silence"; "The press release calls him "the hottest female impressionist in show business today." (One wonders how many more words press agents will have to come up with before they are reduced to actually saying "drag queen.")"transitive