Definition of Diminish

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Diminish

To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.

To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.

To take away; to subtract.

To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.

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Diminish Quotations

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
Dylan Thomas

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
William J. Clinton

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
Dean Koontz

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
Dean Koontz

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
Howard Zinn

America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
Nancy Pelosi

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
Charles Babbage

Diminish Translations

diminish in Afrikaans is verminder
diminish in Dutch is verminderen, afnemen
diminish in German is vermindern
diminish in Italian is rimpicciolire, diminuire
diminish in Latin is reseco, minuo minui minutum
diminish in Norwegian is forminske
diminish in Portuguese is diminua
diminish in Spanish is disminuir, achicar

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