1 No, Winston, you reduced yourself to it.
2 The diary would be reduced to ashes and himself to vapour.
3 When his nerves were in rags after hours of questioning, even this appeal could reduce him to snivelling tears.
4 Relative to our own, the Newspeak vocabulary was tiny, and new ways of reducing it were constantly being devised.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 5 Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the present week.
6 All that was needed was to substitute for the original promise a warning that it would probably be necessary to reduce the ration at some time in April.
7 But there was still that memory moving round the edges of his consciousness, something strongly felt but not reducible to definite shape, like an object seen out of the corner of one's eye.
8 And sure enough, following on a gory description of the annihilation of a Eurasian army, with stupendous figures of killed and prisoners, came the announcement that, as from next week, the chocolate ration would be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty.
9 The inhabitants of these areas, reduced more or less openly to the status of slaves, pass continually from conqueror to conqueror, and are expended like so much coal or oil in the race to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, to control more labour power, to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, and so on indefinitely.