Definitions for diminish
dɪˈmɪn ɪʃdi·min·ish

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. 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"

2. diminish, belittleverb

   lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of

   "don't belittle your colleagues"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. diminishverb

   To make smaller.

2. diminishverb

   To become smaller.

3. diminishverb

   To taper.

4. diminishverb

   To disappear gradually.

5. diminishverb

   To reduce a perfect or minor interval by a semitone.

6. Etymology: From diminuer.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To DIMINISHverb

   Etymology: diminuo, Latin.

   1. To make less by abscission or destruction of any part: the opposite to increase.

   That we call good which is apt to cause or increase pleasure, or diminish pain in us. John Locke.

   2. To impair; to lessen; to degrade.

   Impiously they thought
   Thee to diminish, and from thee withdraw
   The number of thy worshippers. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

   3. To take any thing from that to which it belongs: the contrary to add.

   Nothing was diminished from the safety of the king by the imprisonment of the duke. John Hayward.

   Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2.

2. To Diminishverb

   To grow less; to be impaired.

   What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to chuse or to reject. Dryden.

   Crete’s ample fields diminish to our eye;
   Before the Boreal blasts the vessels fly. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

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1. diminish

   Diminish means to make or become less, decrease in size, quantity, quality, or intensity, or reduce the importance or impact of something.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Diminishverb

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

2. Diminishverb

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

3. Diminishverb

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

4. Diminishverb

   to take away; to subtract

5. Diminishverb

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

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Diminish

   di-min′ish, v.t. to make less: to take a part from: to degrade.—v.i. to grow or appear less: to subside.—adj. Dimin′ishable.—p.adj. Dimin′ished, made smaller, humbled: (mus.) lessened by a half-step, as an interval.—adv. Dimin′ishingly. [Coined by adding di to the word minish, an imitation of L. diminuĕre—di = dis, apart, minuĕre, to make less.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. diminish

   In a military sense, means to decrease the front of a battalion; to adopt the columns of march, or manœuvre according to the obstructions and difficulties which it meets in advancing.

Matched Categories

1. • Lessen

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'diminish' in Verbs Frequency: #903

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of diminish in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of diminish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of diminish in a Sentence

1. Roberta Jacobson:

   Yes, it's a larger group than usual, but... they will also diminish at a certain point. And the thing we have to do most quickly is get humanitarian assistance, job training, education, feeding assistance -- because there's food insecurity throughout these countries. We need to provide options.

2. Jonny Fine:

   When polling data starts to come out after the conventions and through the summer weeks, that will potentially diminish risk taking in the market place - likely as we move into later September, that's why we will see robust issuance in the next two to three weeks, as many issuers want to avoid being in the midst of a potentially volatile September or October.

3. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan:

   Terror organizations and their pawns are targeting our innocent citizens in the most immoral and heartless way as they lose the fight against our security forces, terror attacks -- which intend to target the integrity of Turkey, unity and solidarity of our people -- do not diminish our will to fight against terror, but further boost it.

4. Hillary Clinton:

   Hillary Clinton got what she needed in New York, a solid victory that stopped Bernie Sanders’s weeks-long winning streak … By the end of next week’s contests in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware, her lead in pledged delegates in all likelihood will be insurmountable … [ By May ] turning around public perceptions will be crucial if she hopes not just to win the presidency but to be able to rally the country behind her agenda … Trump’s problems do not diminish the fact that, standing alone, Hillary Clinton looks much weaker than recent nominees … The damage to Hillary Clinton from her battle with Bernie Sanders is borne out in the latest NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll. The longer this race has gone on, the more Hillary Clinton has shown vulnerabilities. The top-line number that caught the eyes of so many analysts shows Hillary Clinton now in a dead heat with [ Bernie ] Sanders nationally — ahead of Bernie Sanders by just two percentage points, 50 to 48percent.

5. Stanley Weiss:

   We expect that at some time it will help diminish the spread of COVID-19, based on the assumptions that persons who are infected and recover will have protective immunity, however, with SARS, data suggested protective immunity was of limited duration. Thus, the precise temporal dynamics may prove very important. For example, there could be recurrent waves. We hope with COVID-19, but do not yet know that they wont become re-infected.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=diminish
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Diminish
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=diminish
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diminish
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=diminish
7. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html