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diminishedverbpast tense of diminish to express scornfully one's low opinion oftends to diminish any rival's accomplishments with snide remarks bad-mouthed, belittled, cried down, decried, denigrated, deprecated, depreciated, derogated, discounted, dismissed, disparaged, dissed(slang), kissed off, minimized, played down, poor-mouthed, put down, ran down, talked down, trashed, trash-talked, vilipended, wrote off discommendedabused, scoldeddisapproved (of), dislikedcensured, condemned, criticized, denounced, reprehended, reprobatedaspersed, defamed, maligned, ripped, slandered, slurred, traduced, vilifieddiscredited, disgraced dumped on acclaimed, applauded, exalted, extolled, glorified, lauded, magnified, praised approved, countenanced, endorsed(also indorsed), favored, recommended, sanctionedcommended, complimented, eulogized to make smaller in amount, volume, or extentthe state's blood supplies were severely diminished by the two consecutive disasters abated, decreased, de-escalated, dented, depleted, downscaled, downsized, dropped, dwindled, eased, knocked down, lessened, lowered, reduced compressed, condensed, constricted, contractedabbreviated, abridged, clipped, cropped, curtailed, cut, cut back, cut down, docked, nicked, pared, pruned, retrenched, shortened, slashed, trimmed, truncated, whittleddeflated, shrank(or shrunk)minimizedmoderated, modified, modulated, qualified aggrandized, amplified, augmented, boosted, enlarged, escalated, expanded, increased, raised blew up, dilated, distended, inflated, swelledelongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged, protractedadded (to), complemented, supplementedenhanced, heightened, intensifiedredoubled to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallythe sound of the train diminished as our distance from it increased abated, declined, decreased, de-escalated, died (away or down or out), drained (away), dropped (off), dwindled, eased, ebbed, fell, fell away, lessened, let up, lowered, moderated, palled, phased down, ratcheted (down)also racheted (down), receded, relented, remitted, shrank(or shrunk), subsided, tapered, tapered off, waned compressed, condensed, constricted, contractedevaporated, faded (away), frittered (away), gave out, melted (away), petered (out), tailed (off), vanishedslackened, slowed (down)alleviated, relaxedflagged, sank(or sunk), weakenedcaved (in), collapsed, deflated accumulated, ballooned, built, burgeoned(also bourgeoned), enlarged, escalated, expanded, grew, increased, intensified, mounted, mushroomed, picked up, rose, snowballed, soared, swelled, waxed appeared, emerged, showed upblew up, distended, elongated, lengthened ca. 1751 |