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Similar words: diminishfinisheddiminutiondiminutivepunishedfinishburnishedastonishedMeaning: [dɪ'mɪnɪʃ]  adj. 1. impaired by diminution 2. (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use 3. (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval 4. made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth). 
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31) Over time these grew, rather than diminished, in importance.
32) The Goblin horde seemed hardly diminished.
33) The sight of one of the boys rubbing a festering ear, while carrying food, also diminished his appetite.
34) The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. John F. Kennedy 
35) Chronic alcoholic patients may have normal, enhanced, or diminished acid secretory capacity; hypochlorhydria being associated histologically with atrophic gastritis.
36) But in most the pace of fertility decline has diminished since the early l980s.
37) Once we heard the sound of firing,(http://sentencedict.com) but the crackle of guns came up to us tinny and diminished.
38) Nor is there any likelihood of competition being diminished, except in the case of one minor product, titanium dioxide.
39) Most reds will be emphasized by artificial light; blues and greens tend to be diminished by it.
40) By these measures, the economic gap between the wealthier countries and the poorer countries is usually diminished.
41) The rain has diminished to an intermittent drizzle, but it is still cold.
42) A separation of science from religion has also been seen in a diminished authority for the Bible in matters of natural philosophy.
43) The 1977 Homicide Act introduced the notion of diminished responsibility, which reduces a charge of murder to manslaughter.
44) The framework remained, the ordered cycle of worship and the charitable works, though much diminished.
45) The compensation of greater freedom may hold fewer attractions when energy is diminished.
46) Diminished revenue was reported on the trams, but increasing profits on the lighting side.
47) At the end they look forward to a married life together in a world diminished by the events of the play.
48) Our inner lives have been hideously diminished by isolation from an ecosocial matrix, weighing us down with sadness and apathy.
49) Once the reality of some degree of uncompetitiveness in markets is acknowledged the consumer's sovereign status is inevitably diminished.
50) The allowances can be diminished for later children, on the grounds that the marginal cost goes down.
51) If I have thereby diminished Carr and Rees's very valuable contribution to this subject, then I am sincerely sorry.
52) A vessel equipped with Flettner rotors gains in manoeuvrability as lift is diminished by slowing a cylinder's speed of rotation.
53) Government resources have been constantly diminished by the need to prioritize defence.
54) There are many reasons why people have a diminished sense of personal conviction.
55) Once more the adults, though diminished in number, sat around a table, whispering about what to do.
56) And if you rely too heavily on rewards and punishments and use them too often, their effect becomes diminished.
57) And so can schoolchildren who volunteer to participate in athletic programs and whose expectation of privacy in the locker room is diminished.
58) Now Lute has suffered a loss beyond words and Tucson is diminished by the passing of one of its nicer people.
59) He pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
60) His school marks improved, and the severe disciplinary problems diminished.
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