make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size
the need for businesses to reduce costs
the workforce has been reduced to some 6,100
bring someone or something to (a worse or less desirable state or condition)
she has been reduced to near poverty
the church was reduced to rubble
change a substance to (a different or more basic form)
it is difficult to understand how lava could have been reduced to dust
cause to combine chemically with hydrogen
hydrogen for reducing the carbon dioxide
restore (a dislocated part of the body) to its proper position by manipulation or surgery
Joe's reducing a dislocated thumb
besiege and capture (a town or fortress)