diminish

[Di*min·ish]

Diminish means to make smaller or lesser. If you cover a lightbulb with a dark lamp shade, the light from the lamp will diminish.

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To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

Verb
decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fall to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"

Verb
lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; "don''t belittle your colleagues"

v. t.
To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

v. t.
To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.

v. t.
To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.

v. t.
To take away; to subtract.

v. i.
To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.

Diminish

Di*min"ish , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diminished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Diminishing.] [Pref. di- (= L. dis-) + minish: cf. L. diminuere, F. diminuer, OE. diminuen. See Dis-, and Minish.] 1. To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

Not diminish, but rather increase, the debt.

2. To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.

This doth nothing diminish their opinion.

I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.

O thou . . . at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads.

3. (Mus.) To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract.

Neither shall ye diminish aught from it.

Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower. -- Diminished, ∨ Diminishing, scale, a scale of gradation used in finding the different points for drawing the spiral curve of the volute. Gwilt. -- Diminishing rule (Arch.), a board cut with a concave edge, for fixing the entasis and curvature of a shaft. -- Diminishing stile (Arch.), a stile which is narrower in one part than in another, as in many glazed doors. Syn. -- To decrease; lessen; abate; reduce; contract; curtail; impair; degrade. See Decrease.

Diminish

Di*min"ish, v. i. To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.

To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.

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Usage Examples

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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Other Usage Examples

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.