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Synonyms for diminish
dɪˈmɪn ɪʃdi·min·ish
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
diminish
The storm, the fever, the pain abates. Interest declines. Misfortunes may be mitigated, desires moderated, intense anger abated, population decreased, taxes reduced. We abate a nuisance, terminate a controversy, suppress a rebellion. See ALLEVIATE.
Synonyms:
abate, decline, decrease, ebb, lessen, lower, mitigate, moderate, reduce, subsideAntonyms:
aggravate, amplify, continue, develop, enhance, enlarge, extend, foment, increase, magnify, rage, raise, revivePreposition:
Abate in fury; abated by law.
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Princeton's WordNet
decrease, diminish, lessen, fallverb
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"
Synonyms:
shine, go down, accrue, strike, devolve, flow, precipitate, settle, lessen, come down, subside, pass, descend, come, fall, return, light, belittle, hang, decrease, minify, fall downdiminish, belittleverb
lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of
"don't belittle your colleagues"
Synonyms:
pick at, fall, belittle, denigrate, disparage, lessen, decrease, minimize, derogate
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Editors Contribution
shrinkinate
the process of diminishing
that man is being shrinkinated
Submitted by rinat on August 26, 2019complete
makes complete thought
Dictionary of English Synonymes
diminishverb
Synonyms:
lessen, decrease, abate, reduce, make smallerdiminishverb
Synonyms:
decrease, lessen, abate, subside, grow or become less, be reduced
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#357 | return | |
#504 | come | |
#613 | light | |
#1104 | lower | |
#1204 | contract | |
#1232 | fall | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1767 | flow | |
#2036 | reduce | |
#3884 | strike | |
#4576 | reducing | |
#4933 | decrease | |
#5420 | moderate | |
#5615 | decline | |
#5712 | hang | |
#7843 | minimize | |
#8623 | settle | |
#9051 | shine | |
#13656 | dwarf | |
#17827 | undermine | |
#18285 | mitigate | |
#21475 | diminish | |
#25048 | lessen | |
#25148 | descend | |
#25411 | weaken | |
#26128 | shorten | |
#27427 | accrue | |
#30671 | ebb | |
#40873 | abate | |
#41439 | precipitate | |
#43430 | curtail | |
#55573 | subside | |
#74328 | belittle | |
#83252 | devolve | |
#84156 | disparage | |
#86920 | denigrate | |
#144647 | derogate | |
#225728 | retrench |
How to use diminish in a sentence?
One of the hallmark benefits of being an American citizen is the right to vote, do not diminish that voting power of American citizens by expanding it to noncitizens. If you want to vote in this country, especially in New York, you should become an American citizen.
We expect that at some time it will help diminish the spread of COVID-19, based on the assumptions that persons who are infected and recover will have protective immunity, however, with SARS, data suggested protective immunity was of limited duration. Thus, the precise temporal dynamics may prove very important. For example, there could be recurrent waves. We hope with COVID-19, but do not yet know that they wont become re-infected.
Our hearts go out to her family, but as we think about the proper way to respond to the situation, we must make sure we do not adopt policies that would diminish public safety and undermine our commitment to the Constitution and civil liberties.
It doesn't diminish anything that he's done. I think he's done a fantastic job.
We're in this next phase of the presidency and the midterms, we want no one to have complaints. But if that is the complaint, we will diminish that complaint, because that's exactly what President Joe Biden's going to be doing.
Translations for diminish
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- خسArabic
- отслабвам, заострям, намалявамBulgarian
- zmenšitCzech
- vermindern, verringern, abschwächen, verkleinern, schrumpfen, reduzieren, schmällernGerman
- maldikiĝi, malgrandiĝi, plimalgrandiĝi, mallarĝiĝiEsperanto
- disminuir, diminuirSpanish
- pienentää, pienentyä, kaventuaFinnish
- diminuer, amincir, rapetisser, rétrécir, réduireFrench
- घटानाHindi
- պակասելArmenian
- diminutarIdo
- ridurre, diminuireItalian
- 減少するJapanese
- dēdūcō, diminuo, minuoLatin
- sumažintiLithuanian
- samazinātLatvian
- whakamimitiMāori
- verlagen, verkleinen, afnemen, verminderenDutch
- diminuirPortuguese
- huch'uiyay, chikachay, huch'uiyachiy, asllayachiyQuechua
- уме́ньшиться, уменьша́ться, уме́ньшить, уменьша́тьRussian
- minskaSwedish
- azaltmakTurkish
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