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diminish
/dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/
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What does diminish mean?
verb
- To make smaller.
- To become less or smaller.
- To make appear smaller than in reality; to dismiss as unimportant.
More meanings (4)
verb
- To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).
- To taper.
- To disappear gradually.
- To take away; to subtract.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/
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When the weeks intervening between the night of this conversation and Christmas day began perceptibly to diminish, her anxiety and perplexity increased.
But to produce beyond his strength and needs, he must invade the production of another, and consequently diminish the number of producers.
More book examples (3)
Every pulpit interpreted the ways of God to man in such seasons so as rather to increase than to diminish the pestilence.
Without such exportation, a part of the productive labour of the country must cease, and the value of its annual produce diminish.
As, however, both food for men and dogs were to come from it, we reckoned that this superadded load would soon diminish.