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Sentence count:174+4Posted:2016-07-20Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: curtailcutdecreaselessenreduceAntonym: increaseraiseSimilar words: diminutivefinish upministryminimizeministerfeministfinish withadministerMeaning: [dɪ'mɪnɪʃ]  v. 1. decrease in size, extent, or range 2. lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of. 
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61 Access would be by debit card, and the use of credit cards would diminish.
62 Its terms purport to enlarge, not to diminish the powers vested in the government.
63 Hence without the existence of heterodoxy and orthodoxy, collective struggles diminish greatly in importance in traditional societies.
64 The proportion of highly placed advisers who had nothing to lose if serfs were emancipated would accordingly diminish.
65 However, the milkman resolved not to let the fact that he had been back to sleep diminish his righteous anger.
66 If the strength of our involvement were to diminish then so, inevitably, would our inward investment.
67 And it is certainly true that these earnings differentials have had a tendency to diminish in the past.
68 They were convinced of the incapacity of the free market significantly to diminish poverty and inequality.
69 And if I use humour to avoid your problem or make light of it, then I diminish its significance.
70 As the system beds down and budgets tighten the opportunities for innovation and experimentation will steadily diminish.
71 The previous autumn, the muggy monsoon heat had begun to diminish on the very day following the festival of Dusshera.
72 The more status you give to a large number of authority figures, the more, relatively, you diminish your own.
73 They have to understand that it does not diminish their professional authority and status if they share decision-making with the governing body.
74 The metals, if not filtered out, can clog steel and iron pipes, cause corrosion and diminish water pressure.
75 "I'm not going to diminish the fact that I was upset," McMahon said.
76 It may be possible to boost your income rather than diminish your expenditure.
77 But this does not diminish the importance of the provisional discoveries which it contains, which the writer has moved to incorporate.
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78 In the human management of distributed control, hierarchies of a certain type will proliferate rather than diminish.
79 Ill health and the onset of deafness did little to diminish Ada Leverson's enjoyment of life.
80 However, because the changes were not substantial, this does not significantly diminish the authority of those cases.
81 The incident appeared likely to diminish the chances of the prisoners being freed last night.
82 This is not in any sense to diminish the importance of what sociology can achieve.
83 During the latter part of the night, in spite of having had no sleep, feelings of fatigue begin to diminish.
84 It will diminish rapidly with the distance in relatedness between individuals.
85 The tension was also reflected in West Beirut, where support for the blockade began to diminish.
86 Nor was this resistance to diminish in the post-war period, as will be seen in the next chapter.
87 The move away from project loans and towards structural adjustment loans in the 1980s does not diminish the main thrust of this argument.
88 Tate said the fences threaten to diminish property values in the neighborhood.
89 This is not to diminish the roles that homophobia played or continues to play in exacerbating the problem.
90 But expectations seemed to diminish day by day over the last week.
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