reduce是動詞，通常可用作不及物動詞，及物動詞，也可用作賓補動詞，有減少，縮小，節食，蒸發等含義。
reduce的釋義
vt. 減少；縮小；使還原；使變弱
vi. 減少；節食；蒸發；（液體）濃縮變稠
第三人稱單數：reduces；現在分詞：reducing；過去式：reduced；過去分詞：reduced
reduce的用法1.用作不及物動詞
I'm reducing.
我正在節食。
She has been reducing for the last few weeks.
最近幾個星期她壹直在節食。
No sugar, thank you —I'm trying to reduce.
對不起,我不吃糖,我在減肥。
2.用作及物動詞
Some fat people try to reduce their weight.
有些肥胖人設法減肥。
We shall have to reduce the price if we want this buyer to take the house off our hands.
若我們想要讓買主從我們的手裏買下這房子,就必須降低售價。
3.用作賓補動詞
Hunger reduced him to steal.
饑餓使他不得不行竊。
In those days poverty reduced many people to beg in the street.
在舊社會,貧窮使許多人不得不在街上乞討。