1.b> (; ); , ; ; to reduce speed ; i> ; to reduce defence expenditure [staff] [] ; to reduce taxes [prices, temperature] [, ] ; costs have been substantially reduced ; emissions were reduced by 20% 20%-i> ; to reduce the term of imprisonment ; to reduce the establishment / ;
2.b> (), ; to reduce resistance ; to reduce pain ; to reduce one's sight [one's hearing, one's taste, one's sense of smell] [, , ] ;
3.b> 1) .i> .i> (), ( i>); she has been reducing for six weeks i> ; to reduce in weight ;
2) (), ; to be greatly reduced by illness / ; to be reduced to a shadow [to a skeleton] [] ; reduced almost to nothing ;
4.b> 1) i> (), ; to reduce to powder , ; to reduce to its elements / components / / ; to reduce to ashes [to dust, to matchwood] / [, ] ; his clothes were reduced to rags ; to reduce theory to practice / ; to reduce to writing ; passions were reduced to memories ;
2) i> () , ..i>; to reduce yards to inches [dollars to cents] [ ] ;
3) .i> (), ; ; to reduce fractions to a common denominator / ; to reduce a common fraction to a decimal ;
5.b> 1) i> (); to reduce to begging , ; she was reduced to begging on the streets i> / ; to reduce to tears [to despair, to extremity] [, ] ; the letter reduced her to tears ;
2) i> (); we can reduce the problem to two main issues / ; to reduce everything to a single principle ; to reduce anomalies to rule ; to reduce to an absurdity ; irony reduced to an art / ;
6.b> .i> .i> (), (, .i>); to reduce in rank , i> ; to reduce to the rank i> ;
7.b> (), i> ; to reduce to silence , ; to reduce to submission ; to reduce smb. to discipline , ; you must reduce those boys to order ;
8.b> (), ; after a long siege they reduced the fort ;
9.b> .i> i> (, ), ;
10.b> .i> (), , (, .i>);
11.b> .i> ();
12.b> .i> (; ) [.i> .i> reductionr> 11];
13.b> .i> () .i>
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