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diminishverb to express scornfully one's low opinion oftends to diminish any rival's accomplishments with snide remarks bad-mouth, belittle, cry down, decry, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, derogate, dis(also diss, slang), discount, dismiss, disparage, kiss off, minimize, play down, poor-mouth, put down, run down, talk down, trash, trash-talk, vilipend, write off discommendabuse, scolddisapprove (of), dislikecensure, condemn, criticize, denounce, reprehend, reprobateasperse, defame, malign, rip, slander, slur, traduce, vilifydiscredit, disgrace dump on acclaim, applaud, exalt, extol(also extoll), glorify, laud, magnify, praise approve, countenance, endorse(also indorse), favor, recommend, sanctioncommend, compliment, eulogize to make smaller in amount, volume, or extentthe state's blood supplies were severely diminished by the two consecutive disasters abate, de-escalate, decrease, dent, deplete, downscale, downsize, drop, dwindle, ease, knock down, lessen, lower, reduce compress, condense, constrict, contractabbreviate, abridge, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, dock, nick, pare, prune, retrench, shorten, slash, trim, truncate, whittledeflate, shrinkminimizemoderate, modify, modulate, qualify aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, enlarge, escalate, expand, increase, raise blow up, dilate, distend, inflate, swellelongate, extend, lengthen, prolong, protractadd (to), complement, supplementenhance, heighten, intensifyredouble to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallythe sound of the train diminished as our distance from it increased abate, de-escalate, decline, decrease, die (away or down or out), drain (away), drop (off), dwindle, ease, ebb, fall, fall away, lessen, let up, lower, moderate, pall, phase down, ratchet (down)also rachet (down), recede, relent, remit, shrink, subside, taper, taper off, wane compress, condense, constrict, contractevaporate, fade (away), fritter (away), give out, melt (away), peter (out), tail (off), vanishslacken, slow (down)alleviate, relaxflag, sink, weakencave (in), collapse, deflate accumulate, balloon, build, burgeon(also bourgeon), enlarge, escalate, expand, grow, increase, intensify, mount, mushroom, pick up, rise, snowball, soar, swell, wax appear, emerge, show upblow up, distend, elongate, lengthen decrease, lessen, diminish, reduce, abate, dwindle mean to grow or make less.decrease suggests a progressive decline in size, amount, numbers, or intensity.slowly decreased the amount of pressure lessen suggests a decline in amount rather than in number.has been unable to lessen her debt diminish emphasizes a perceptible loss and implies its subtraction from a total.his visual acuity has diminished reduce implies a bringing down or lowering.you must reduce your caloric intake abate implies a reducing of something excessive or oppressive in force or amount.the storm abated dwindle implies progressive lessening and is applied to things growing visibly smaller.their provisions dwindled slowly in the 15th century |