'Reduces' in the Bible

The priest is to put on his linen robe, and he shall put on undergarments next to his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire reduces the burnt offering on the altar and place them beside the altar.

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

He reduces princes to nothingand makes judges of the earth irrational.