reduce to tears

reduce someone to tears

to cause a person to cry through insults, frustration, and belittling. He scolded her so much that she was reduced to tears by the end of the meeting.

reduce somebody to tears

to make someone cry His classmates jeered, reducing him to tears.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Hamed	-	Arabic, Persian
ErdoĞAn	-	Turkish
Joi	JOI	English (Modern)
Adjoa	-	Western African, Akan
Metody	me-TAW-di	Polish
Celino	che-LEE-no (Italian), the-LEE-no (Spanish), se-LEE-no (Latin American Spanish)	Italian (Rare), Spanish (Rare)