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reduce someone to tears

reduce someone to tears verb: to cause to cry.

Verb

reduce someone to tears (third-person singular simple present reduces someone to tears, present participle reducing someone to tears, simple past and past participle reduced someone to tears)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive, especially passive voice) To cause to cry.

Synonyms of reduce someone to tears

Forms of reduce someone to tears

third-person singular presentreduces someone to tears
present participlereducing someone to tears
past participlereduced someone to tears
pastreduced someone to tears

Questions about reduce someone to tears

What does reduce someone to tears mean?
Reduce someone to tears means to cause to cry.
What part of speech is reduce someone to tears?
Reduce someone to tears is a verb.
What is the past tense of reduce someone to tears?
The past tense of reduce someone to tears is reduced someone to tears.

Words near reduce someone to tears in the dictionary

  1. reduc't
  2. reducant
  3. reducants
  4. reducatase
  5. reduce
  6. reduce someone to tears
  7. reduceable
  8. reduceableness
  9. reduced
  10. reduced algebra
  11. reduced algebras

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