gen. Decrease or diminution in magnitude, importance, brilliancy, intensity, etc.

A small child; (in later use) a small and young animal.

The action of less, v.; lessening, diminution; reduction, abatement.

The action or process of reducing, or lessening; reduction, diminution, decrease; an instance of this.

The action of diminishing or making less; the process of diminishing or becoming less; reduction in magnitude or degree; lessening, decrease.

The action of minish, v. (in various senses).

The process of growing less; lessening, diminution, falling off, abatement; the condition which results from this. (Opposed to increase, n.)

Diminution or reduction of effect or force; decrease or abatement of a condition or quality, such as heat, cold, etc.; (also) an instance of…

Contraction and reduction in size or volume through the action of heat, cold, or moisture; the drawing up or withering (of sinews, etc.).

Reduction, decrease, diminishing.

Medicine. Reduction in the length or size of a part of the body; contraction, esp. of a muscle; an instance of this. Obsolete.

The action of reducing the amount, quantity, extent, etc., of something; the action or fact of becoming smaller; reduction, diminution; cutting…

Lessening, diminution; a reduction. Obsolete.

The reverse of increase; decrease, diminution.

The action of abating, lessening, or reducing (in various senses of abate, v.1 II.); an instance of this; (also) the state of being abated or…

gen. Something that restricts a person or thing; a limitation on action; a limiting condition or regulation.

Deduction, diminution, abatement: cf. abate, n. 3.

= diminution, n.

The action of limiting or placing a limit on something, constraint, restriction; an instance of this.

Diminution, reduction (of a quality, etc.); an instance of this.

= minishing, n.

The action or process of making or becoming less; diminution.

The action of mitigating or moderating; the fact or condition of being mitigated; an instance of this; spec. abatement or relaxation of the…

The action of diminish, v.; lessening, diminution.

The action of making less or weak; an instance of this; a weakening, impoverishment. Also mitigation (of blame or punishment). Obsolete.

The action of the verb, in various senses.

Reduction.

The action or process of diminishing (transitive and intransitive); diminution, lessening, decrease, abatement.

Chiefly rhetorical. Loss; diminution; degradation. Obsolete.

= abatement, n.2

Diminution in amount, force, etc. Obsolete.

Restriction; diminution. rare.

Diminution, lessening, decrease.

The action of contract, v. (in various senses).

The action or process of contracting (transitive and intransitive), or state of being contracted; decrease in length, breadth, extent, or volume…

Diminution, lessening; (also) a reduction.

The action of rebate, v.1 (in various senses); an instance of this. In later use chiefly: the action or practice of giving a rebate.

A diminution, a lessening; reduction in extent, size, amount, or importance.

Departure, withdrawal; secession; deviation from a given standard, ‘coming down’; decrease, diminution (opposed to accession).

Reduction, diminution.

Diminution, lessening; abatement; = reduction, n. 14.

The process or fact of decreasing or growing gradually less, or (with plural) an instance of this; decrease, diminution, lessening, waste, loss…

Lessening, abatement.

The action of shrivel, v.

Decrease, diminution.

Lowering of force or strength; diminution or weakening (of the bodily strength or appetite).

An abating, an abatement.

the action or an act of rolling back; spec. the reduction of something to a previous state or level; an instance of this.

The action of limit, v.; an instance of this.

Reduction, lessening, diminution.

The action of reducing the amount, quantity, extent, etc., of something; the action or fact of becoming smaller; diminution, lessening; cutting…

A lowering in quality, vigour, or amount; the state of being lowered or reduced in force, activity, intensity, etc. In modern use esp. of trade…

The action or an act of drawing or pulling someone or something down (literal and figurative); lowering, depletion; (Scottish) oppression…

With reference to a scale, as musical pitch, temperature, etc.: a fall, a lowering.

Decrease, diminution.

The action of lower, v. (in various senses); an instance of this.

Of immaterial things: Diminution or reduction in quantity, amount, or size; depreciation or decrease in value; the amount of such diminution.

A rapid descent; deterioration, decadence; change from bad to worse. Also as a verb.

Diminution or reduction in size, appearance, importance, etc.; esp. (chiefly in scientific contexts) reduction in the size of an image.

A decrease, or the process of decreasing, in size, amount, rate, or number; spec. (South Asian Economics) a reduction in economic activity or value.