Ablated
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.
Reduced
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Made smaller or less, resulting from reduction.Reduced, lowered in price; on sale, at discount priceIn cookery, of a sauce etc., made more concentrated.
Example sentence: The young people I know judge leaders by their deeds and abhor hypocrisy. Inconsistency and point-scoring do not win respect. It's not easy to be engaged in political debate when it is reduced to performers trying to outdo each other. Actions from leaders must mirror the values they claim to espouse.