reduces

verb

1. To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.“to reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.”
2. To lose weight.
3. To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.“Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced.”
4. To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.“to reduce a province or a fort”