reduce someone to tears (English, verb)
expansion: 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)
Senses:
qualifier: especially passive voice
glosses: To cause to cry.
tags: idiomatic
transitive
Forms:
form: reduces someone to tears
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reducing someone to tears
tags: participle
present
form: reduced someone to tears
tags: participle
past
form: reduced someone to tears
tags: past