| réduire |
| 1. v. to reduce | |
| 2. v. to cut (prices); to shorten (text); to reduce, scale down (pictures etc.) | |
| 3. v. (indtr, à) to reduce (someone) to | |
| Je les ai réduits en esclavage. I reduced them to slavery. | |
| 4. v. (indtr, en) to reduce (something) to | |
| La maison fut réduite en cendres. The house was reduced to ashes. | |
| 5. v. (medicine) to reduce, set | |
| 6. v. (chemistry, cooking) to reduce | |
| 7. v. (military) to capture (place), quell (opposition etc.) | |
| 8. v. (indtr, à, .takes a reflexive pronoun) to amount to, to come down to | |
| Les copules, qui se réduisent au rôle de lien syntaxique entre sujet et attribut en estompant leur sémantique propre, sont souvent des verbes d'état. - | |
| les |
| 1. art. plural of le: the | |
| 2. art. plural of la: the | |
| 3. pron. plural of le: them | |
| 4. pron. plural of la: them | |
| dépenses |
| 1. v. second-person singular present of dépenser | |
| 2. n. plural of dépense | |
| dépenser |
| 1. v. to spend (money) | |
