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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
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?
The chances diminish by half with radiation, and are almost eliminated with mastectomy. People want to avoid it. Quality of life seems to be improved if recurrence was removed, if you're going to have this treatment to reduce recurrence, I would say get the mastectomy. The better of those two treatments, mastectomy involves a tremendous amount of mental relief.
When you chip away at protections for the press, you diminish their ability to do their constitutionally protected job.
I told my counterparts that Japan is very concerned about the 'safe harbor' proposal, it would extremely diminish the regulatory effect of what we're trying to do. That is a view expressed by various countries.
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.
Heightened political risk at home coupled with Brexit uncertainty may prompt the BOE to repeatedly delay monetary policy normalization in 2018, if expectations continue to diminish over the central bank raising UK interest rates, sterling is at risk of experiencing heavy losses down the road.
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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