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|link={{filepath:woodhouse_683.jpg&#125;&#125;]]'''v. trans.'''
<b class="b2">Lessen</b>: P. ἐλασσοῦν, μειοῦν (Xen.).
<b class="b2">Cut down</b>: P. and V. συντέμνειν, συστέλλειν.
<b class="b2">Subdue, put down</b>: P. and V. καταστρέφεσθαι, κατεργάζεσθαι, καθαιρεῖν.
<b class="b2">Reduce by warfare</b>: P. καταπολεμεῖν (acc.).
<b class="b2">Reduce by siege</b>: P. ἐκπολιορκεῖν (absol.).
<b class="b2">Reduce by hunger</b>: P. ἐκπολιορκεῖν λιμῷ (Thuc. 1, 134).
<b class="b2">Get into one's power</b>: P. and V. χειροῦσθαι, ὑποχείριον [[λαμβάνω|λαμβάνειν]], P. ὑφʼ ἑαυτῷ ποιεῖσθαι, V. χείριον [[λαμβάνω
|λαμβάνειν]] (Eur., ''Cycl.'').
<b class="b2">Reduee to order</b>: P. διακοσμεῖν, P. and V. κοσμεῖν.
<b class="b2">Reduce to a state</b>: P. and V. καθιστάναι (εἰς, acc.), P. κατάγειν (εἰς, acc.).
<b class="b2">I was reduced to the depths of despair</b>: P. εἰς πολλὴν ἀθυμίαν κατέστην (Lys. 120). <b class="b2">You</b> see
<b class="b2">how I am reduced by sickness</b>: P. ὁρᾶτε δὴ ὡς [[διάκειμαι]] ὑπὸ τῆς νόσου (Thuc. 7, 77).
<b class="b2">Reduce</b> (<b class="b2">in bulk</b>): P. and V. ἰσχναίνειν (Plat.).
<b class="b2">When the suffering was reduced</b>: V. ὅτε . . . ὁ μοχθὸς ἦν [[πέπων]] (Soph., ''O.C.'' 437).
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|gf=<b>rĕdūcĕ</b>, v. [[reduco]].
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