to reduce / to cut (prices); to shorten (text); to reduce, scale down (pictures etc.) / to reduce (someone) to / to reduce (something) to / to reduce, set / to reduce / to capture (place), quell (opposition etc.) / to amount to, to come down to

(transitive) to reduce to silence, to silence

(transitive) to burn to ashes, to reduce to ashes

(transitive) to shatter, to smash, to blow to smithereens, to tear to pieces

to wipe out, to annihilate; to dash, to shatter; to reverse, to nullify

(nautical) to shorten sail / (figuratively) to trim one's sails, to make cutbacks, to reduce costs and manpower

(transitive) to minimize, to cut, to reduce to practically nothing

(transitive) to reduce to its simplest form, to its simplest terms; to reduce to the bare minimum

second-person plural future of réduire