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reduce someone to something
phrasal verb with reduceverb[ I or T ]uk /rɪˈdʒuːs/ us /rɪˈduːs/
C2
to make someone unhappy or cause someone to be in a bad state or situation: 使（某人）（情绪）低落;使（某人）沦落，使（某人）陷入困境
His comments reduced her to tears(= made her cry).他的话把她气哭了。
The sergeant was reduced to the ranks(= made an ordinary soldier) for his cowardice.中士因为贪生怕死被降为士兵。
C2
If you are reduced to doing something, you are forced to do it because you have no other choice: 使（某人）被逼无奈做…；使（某人）不得不做…
He was out of cigarettes and was reduced to smoking the butts left in the ashtrays.我烟抽光了，无奈只好抽烟灰缸中的烟头。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Treating people or animals badly
a raw dealidiom
abuser
anti-harassment
at the hands of someoneidiom
batten
batten on someone
hit someone where it hurtsidiom
ill-treat
ill-treatment
ill-used
impose
prey
prey on something
put someone through something
put upon
uncared for
use
victimization
victimize
victimology
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Causing somebody to act
reduce something to something
phrasal verb with reduceverb[ I or T ]uk /rɪˈdʒuːs/ us /rɪˈduːs/
C2
to cause something, especially a large structure, to be destroyed and broken into pieces: 将（尤指大型建筑物）彻底摧毁；将…夷为平地
Allied bombing reduced the city to ruins/rubble.联军的轰炸使这座城市沦为一片废墟／瓦砾。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Destroying and demolishing
annihilate
annihilation
apocalypse
bash
bash through (something)
be sacrificed on the altar of somethingidiom
costly
dynamite
erosion
erosional
erosionally
erosive
saboteur
sack
sacking
sacrifice
scarred
self-destruct
sink
wipe
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