Might mean (unverified): Make someone cry intensely, emotionally.
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  1. reduce someone to tears: Merriam-Webster
  2. reduce someone to tears: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (reduce someone to tears)

verb:  (idiomatic, transitive, especially passive voice) To cause to cry.

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