reduced
/ɹɪˈdust/ adjective B1- Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction. · the reduced prices in a summer sale
- Discounted in price. · the reduced goods at the sale
- Of a sauce etc.: made more concentrated. · The chicken was served in a reduced red wine sauce.
- Of a relative clause: not marked by an explicit relative pronoun or relativizer such as who, which, or that.
- Of a vowel: relatively more centralised (as schwa or closer to it). See reduced vowel.
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The Ass, seeing him drawing a dungcart, thus derided him: “Where, O boaster, are now all thy gay trappings, thou who are thyself reduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt?”
“Because their deeds have brought them good fortune, while honest men have been reduced to misery.”
“And of your infliction,” cried Elizabeth, with energy; “You have reduced him to his present state of poverty--comparative poverty.
In order to meet the payments then due; he had collected all his resources, and, fearing lest the report of his distress should get bruited abroad at Marseilles when he was known to be reduced to such an extremity, he went to the Beaucaire fair to sell his wife’s and daughter’s jewels and a portion of his plate.
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