meaning of diminish
1. To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
2. To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
3. To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
4. To take away; to subtract.
5. To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.
6. 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"
Related Words
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