to force someone into an unpleasant state or situation
to make something change into a different form by damaging it or crushing it
to upset or shock someone so much that they cry or are unable to speak
Stress had reduced him to a nervous wreck.
The building was reduced to rubble by the explosion.
The fruit is reduced to a pulp and then mixed with sugar.
This beautiful forest has been reduced to a wasteland.
reduces to
reducing to
reduced to
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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