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diminish English

Meaning diminish meaning

What does diminish mean?
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diminish Verb

— When something diminishes it gets smaller or less important or makes something that way. The way you talked just now diminished my respect for you. The amount of water in the lake is diminishing because there has been no rain.

diminish

— verb (= decrease, fall) decrease in size, extent, or range The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester The cabin pressure fell dramatically her weight fell to under a hundred pounds his voice fell to a whisper — verb (= belittle) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of don't belittle your colleagues

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diminish English » English

decrease reduce lessen abate decline shrink subside dwindle weaken grow less lower shorten wane become less fall curtail go down drop belittle abridge ease waste subtract slacken cut reduced recede moderate mitigate minimize make small contract bring down become smaller understate soften let up impair drop off disappear deteriorate destroy cut down alleviate allay vanish taper suppress retrench relax

Topics diminish topics

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States Quantity More

Decrease
Grammar Very Degree

To a smaller degree

Conjugation diminish conjugation

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diminish · verb

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Movie subtitles

As I explained to Mrs. Johnson, the little girl's aunt we hesitate in using a curare to diminish the spasms.
Our constabulary managed to diminish the number of murders. but we're forced to recognize the Thuggee still exists.
But their tally of bricks shall not diminish.
It would diminish our relationship?
Adama, don't diminish his chances because he's your son.
I will diminish and go into the west and remain Galadriel.
One more trick like that and I shall be forced to diminish you drastically.
But what resources are needed to diminish the alarming rise in crimes?
His delirium didn't diminish.
Even this wretched pit can't diminish the spirit of true genius.
If he would give himself over, the pain would diminish.
It won't diminish the experience.
And I don't want to diminish your accomplishment, guys, but I don't want to kid you either.
It is true that the efficiency of high-order beings does diminish proportionately with deprivation of nutritious fuel.
Five. DIMINISH!
Seriously. - It would diminish our relationship?
Ascanio, My passion for Greta would never diminish my love for Ippolita. I know.
Never shall your charm diminish if you remain untainted by doubt!
Even this wretched pit can't diminish true genius.
Do you want something for the pain? It won't diminish the experience.
Nothing could diminish his love for her.
Sir, I'm a little intimidated by my surroundings. and yes, I have gotten off to a somewhat stilted beginning. but don't let that diminish the weight of my message.
Such anomalies are to be considered harmful when they disrupt the progress of an individual's everyday existence and diminish his or her ability to adapt to life in society.
Does it diminish your decorum if your wife doesn't wear those jewels?
DIMINISH! Five. Five.
I won't try to diminish them.
By diminishing their importance, you diminish his actions.
Painting did not want to diminish the sacred and so struggled to avoid this through an elevation of the everyday.
And you think that time will diminish their presence.. andtoadegreeitdoes.. butitstillhurts, because, well.
It's easy to get into his mouth and drop on his tongue. and it will certainly diminish the pain that he's in.
It doesn't diminish what I've said because they're black and white.
They recommended bromide to diminish sexual desire.
Why would anyone diminish a woman's sexual desire?
I will diminish and go into the West and remain Galadriel.
I won't leave. The name is spoken with respect again. I won't diminish.
Buffy's dead, and I don't mean to diminish that.

News and current affairs

Thomas Jefferson compared knowledge to candles: when one is used to light another, it does not diminish the light of the first.
They safeguard them, and should not diminish those liberties without an explicit mandate.
Then, perhaps, with women chaste for half or more of their childbearing years, the surplus population would diminish and conditions for the poor would be as good as they could be.
This has been said many times, but repetition does not diminish its importance.
Now is the time for China, the Philippines, Vietnam, other claimants, and the US to take action to begin to diminish these tensions.
Peace thus requires a degree of political and socioeconomic change to diminish the appetite for military adventurism.
John Maynard Keynes prophesied in the 1920's that as countries grew wealthier, people's preoccupation with money and possessions would diminish.
But it does not diminish the need for bold unconventional action against deflation, and it should not prevent the ECB from launching QE.
These issues should diminish with time; as that happens, part of the productivity lull should disappear.
This will diminish Russia's chances of ever becoming a full democracy, for it can rule an empire only as a militarized state.
Of course, there is a risk that subsidies and lotteries may diminish the moral motivation of citizens to obey tax laws, because compliance becomes conditional on some form of compensation.
Most successful modern football clubs are as mixed as Benetton advertisements, with coaches and players from all over the globe, but this seems to have done nothing to diminish the enthusiasm of local supporters.
As globalization spreads technical capabilities, and information technology allows broader participation in global communications, American economic and cultural preponderance may diminish.
This is not to diminish the value of some of the lesser evils - low-fat milk and yogurt, for example.
As they absorb their losses on US treasury and agency securities, capital flows toward the US will diminish.
With economic growth continuing, the potential risk posed by this debt will diminish.
Fracking would also be a strategic boon, because it would diminish the country's dependence on Russia for gas.
Global brands should start to appear, and government ownership of enterprises will continue to diminish.
But Ortega is creating a state of emergency in his party as he tries to diminish the threat posed by Herty Lewites, the former mayor of Managua and the country's most popular politician.
Yet, despite all this, Ortega has yet to diminish Lewites's ability to rally the masses.
While both policies must be regarded as successes, over the years the family planning program has contributed to an aging population that may diminish China's attractiveness as a low-cost, labor-intensive manufacturing hub.
The effects of tax policies that stole demand from the future - such as incentives for buyers of cars and homes - will diminish as programs expire.

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