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[[lessen]]: P. ἐλασσοῦν, μειοῦν (Xen.).

 

[[cut down]]: P. and V. συντέμνειν, συστέλλειν.

 

[[subdue]], [[put down]]: P. and V. καταστρέφεσθαι, κατεργάζεσθαι, καθαιρεῖν.

 

[[reduce by warfare]]: P. καταπολεμεῖν (acc.).

 

[[reduce by siege]]: P. ἐκπολιορκεῖν (absol.).

 

[[reduce by hunger]]: P. ἐκπολιορκεῖν λιμῷ (Thuc. 1, 134).

 

[[get into one's power]]: P. and V. χειροῦσθαι, ὑποχείριον [[λαμβάνω|λαμβάνειν]], P. ὑφʼ ἑαυτῷ ποιεῖσθαι, V. χείριον [[λαμβάνω

 

[[reduee to order]]: P. διακοσμεῖν, P. and V. κοσμεῖν.

 

[[reduce to a state]]: P. and V. καθιστάναι (εἰς, acc.), P. κατάγειν (εἰς, acc.).

 

[[I was reduced to the depths of despair]]: P. εἰς πολλὴν ἀθυμίαν κατέστην (Lys. 120). [[you see how I am reduced by sickness]]: P. ὁρᾶτε δὴ ὡς [[διάκειμαι]] ὑπὸ τῆς νόσου (Thuc. 7, 77).

 

[[reduce]] (in [[bulk]]): P. and V. ἰσχναίνειν (Plat.).

 

[[when the suffering was reduced]]: V. ὅτε . . . ὁ μοχθὸς ἦν [[πέπων]] (Soph., ''O.C.'' 437).