单词 | minify |
释义 | minify (once / 231752 pages) v WORD FAMILY minify: minified, minifying USAGE EXAMPLESIt has throughout denied or minified Mendelian results, and depended on the treatment of inheritance by a study of correlations. Popenoe, Paul, Applied Eugenics(2010) Unless this fact be kept in mind, the influence of the Church upon Masonry, which no one seeks to minify, may easily be exaggerated. Newton, Joseph Fort, The Builders—A Story and Study of M...(2010) Local caste, prejudice, interest, and bias warp us and minify our usefulness. Various, Memorial Addresses on the Life and...(2010) v make smaller Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper decrease, lessen increase make bigger or more suppress reduce the incidence or severity of or stop mitigatemake less severe or harsh pare, pare downdecrease gradually or bit by bit circumscribe, confine, limitrestrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day" boil down, concentrate, reducecook until very little liquid is left reduce, shrinkreduce in size; reduce physically abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shortenreduce in scope while retaining essential elements abate, slack, slakemake less active or intense lour, lower, turn downmake lower or quieter de-escalate, step down, weakenreduce the level or intensity or size or scope of minimise, minimizemake small or insignificant bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim downcut down on; make a reduction in cuthave a reducing effect relax, slack, slack up, slackenmake less active or fast belittle, diminishlessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of lighten, relievealleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shortenedit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate hold downrestrain keep down, numberplace a limit on the number of caprestrict the number or amount of curb, curtail, cut back, restrictplace restrictions on reduce, scale downmake smaller reefreduce (a sail) by taking in a reef miniaturise, miniaturizedesign or construct on a smaller scale concentrate, condense, digestmake more concise shortenmake shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration hedgeminimize loss or risk spillreduce the pressure of wind on (a sail) quenchreduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance retrenchmake a reduction, as in one's workforce slashcut drastically thin outmake sparse thinmake thin or thinner depopulate, desolatereduce in population detract, take awaytake away a part from; diminish deflatereduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices inflateincrease the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value downsizereduce in size or number downsizemake in a smaller size subtracttake off or away delimit, delimitate, demarcateset, mark, or draw the boundaries of something contentsatisfy in a limited way contractmake smaller rationrestrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war knock off, shavecut the price of alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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