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reduce to ashes — If something is reduced to ashes, it is destroyed or made useless. His infidelities reduced their relationship to ashes … The small dictionary of idiomes
ashes — n. 1) to rake; spread ashes 2) to reduce to ashes 3) (misc.) to rise from the ashes * * * [ æʃɪz] spread ashes (misc.) to rise from the ashes to rake to reduce to ashes … Combinatory dictionary
reduce — re|duce W1S1 [rıˈdju:s US rıˈdu:s] v [Date: 1300 1400; : Latin; Origin: reducere to lead back , from ducere to lead ] 1.) [T] to make something smaller or less in size, amount, or price = ↑cut →↑reduction ▪ The governor announced a new plan to… … Dictionary of contemporary English
reduce — re|duce [ rı dus ] verb transitive *** 1. ) to make something smaller or less in size, amount, importance, etc: CUT DOWN: Try to reduce the amount of fat in your diet. reduce something by something: The workforce will be reduced by around 30… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
reduce — verb 1 (T) to make something smaller or less in size, amount, or price: We were hoping that they would reduce the rent a little. | reduce sth by half/ten percent etc: The workforce has been reduced by half. (+ to): All the shirts were reduced to… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
reduce to — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms reduce to : present tense I/you/we/they reduce to he/she/it reduces to present participle reducing to past tense reduced to past participle reduced to 1) reduce something to something to make something change… … English dictionary
“Ashes“ — Short story (3,220 words); written in collaboration with C.M.Eddy, Jr., probably in the fall of 1923. First published in WT(March 1924); first collected in HM (rev. ed. 1989 only). A scientist, Arthur Van Allister, has discovered a chemical … An H.P.Lovecraft encyclopedia
reduce — re•duce [[t]rɪˈdus, ˈdyus[/t]] v. duced, duc•ing 1) to bring down to a smaller size, amount, price, etc 2) to lower in degree, intensity, etc 3) to demote to a lower rank 4) to treat analytically, as a complex idea 5) to act destructively upon (a … From formal English to slang
ἀποτεφρωμένα — ἀποτεφρωμένᾱ , ἀποτεφρόω reduce to ashes pres part mp fem nom/voc/acc dual (doric aeolic) ἀποτεφρωμένᾱ , ἀποτεφρόω reduce to ashes pres part mp fem nom/voc sg (doric aeolic) ἀ̱ποτεφρωμένα , ἀποτεφρόω reduce to ashes perf part mp neut… … Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)
ἀποτεφρωμένων — ἀποτεφρόω reduce to ashes pres part mp fem gen pl (doric aeolic) ἀποτεφρόω reduce to ashes pres part mp masc/neut gen pl (doric aeolic) ἀ̱ποτεφρωμένων , ἀποτεφρόω reduce to ashes perf part mp fem gen pl (doric aeolic) ἀ̱ποτεφρωμένων , ἀποτεφρόω… … Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)
