diminishverb [ I or T ]
uk/dɪˈmɪn.ɪʃ/us/dɪˈmɪn.ɪʃ/C1 to reduce or be reduced in size or importance:
I don't want to diminish her achievements, but she did have a lot of help.
These memories will not be diminished by time.
What he did has seriously diminished him in many people's eyes.
We've seen our house diminish greatly/sharply/substantially in value over the last six months.
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- Later on in life the sex drive tends to diminish.
- Rising unemployment has diminished the bargaining power of people with jobs.
- The inaccuracy of the missiles greatly diminishes their effectiveness.
- Her popularity as a singer has diminished since the glory days of the 1980s.
- Fresh snow meant that our chances of reaching the summit slowly diminished.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Becoming and making smaller or less
- a nip (here) and a tuck (there) idiom
- attenuate
- axe
- bite
- bite into sth
- dive
- drain
- let up
- lower
- make a hole in sth idiom
- miniaturization
- miniaturize
- minimize
- shrink
- slash
- strip sth away
- stripped down
- subside
- tail off
- take a tumble idiom
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