v. 25B6; verb
the aim to reduce pollution : LESSEN, make smaller, lower, bring down, decrease, diminish, minimize; shrink, narrow, contract, shorten; axe, cut (back/down), make cutbacks in, trim, slim (down), prune; informal chop.
he reduced her to tears : BRING TO, bring to the point of, drive to.
he was reduced to the ranks : DEMOTE, downgrade, lower (in rank).
bread has been reduced : MAKE CHEAPER, lower the price of, cut (in price), mark down, discount, put on sale; informal slash, knock down.
increase, put up.
25A0; in reduced circumstances IMPOVERISHED, in straitened circumstances, ruined, bankrupted; poor, indigent, impecunious, in penury, poverty-stricken, destitute; needy, badly off, hard up; informal flat (broke), without two pennies to rub together, strapped for cash; Brit. informal stony broke, skint, in Queer Street; N. Amer. informal stone broke; formal penurious.