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diminished

[dih-min-ish]

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verb (used with object)

to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.

Architecture. to give (a column) a form tapering inward from bottom to top.

Music. to make (an interval) smaller by a chromatic half step than the corresponding perfect or minor interval.

to detract from the authority, honor, stature, or reputation of; disparage.

verb (used without object)

to lessen; decrease.

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; blend of diminuen (< Anglo-French diminuer < Medieval Latin dīminuere for Latin dēminuere to make smaller) and minishen minish

Related forms

di·min·ish·a·ble, adjective

di·min·ish·ment, noun

non·di·min·ish·ing, adjective

pre·di·min·ish, verb (used with object)

pre·di·min·ish·ment, noun

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un·di·min·ish·a·ble, adjective

un·di·min·ish·a·ble·ness, noun

un·di·min·ish·a·b·ly, adverb

un·di·min·ished, adjective

un·di·min·ish·ing, adjective

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Synonyms
5. See decrease.

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Example Sentences

The world is diminished by his death, indeed as it has benefitted so much by his extraordinary life.

The intrusiveness of other forms of monitoring make us feel somehow diminished.

Economic growth will be constricted, and the quality of life will be diminished.

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The world is diminished by his death, indeed as it has benefitted so much by his extraordinary life.

The intrusiveness of other forms of monitoring make us feel somehow diminished.

Economic growth will be constricted, and the quality of life will be diminished.

Downstream human communities also may suffer from diminished water resources.

The clouding of the lens--or cataract--forces an image to travel through a distorted medium, resulting in diminished vision.

It releases fewer volatile chemicals, and your tongue's ability to taste bitterness is diminished.

But as microbrews went mainstream, these status differences diminished.

The civic and moral dimensions also are diminished by the powerful market-based orientation to economic and social problems.

In particular, bosses' profits have sadly diminished.

Scientists have estimated that storm surge is diminished by one foot for every square-mile of wetland it travels through.

Many boys and men with autism suffer from diminished social and communication skills.

By then, the public's distrust of electricity had diminished.

Faced with diminished success in receiving funds, many professors have begun resorting to various methods to improve their odds.

Conversely, the value of a minority language is diminished as people abandon it.

Wind shear diminished as the hurricane season reached its peak in mid-August, and a flurry of storms formed.

Photosynthesis rose when the front of the waves hit, and then diminished.

Meth addicts, he told me, ultimately suffer from diminished sense of touch.

Not having tenure, she adds, has not diminished her ability to manage her department.

The country's strife has diminished in intensity, fading from the international headlines.

As a result shark stocks are slow to rebound once their populations have been diminished.

For want of an elephant, a protective ant species diminished and left the whistling thorn acacia in dire straits.

In other words, their bad social behavior had diminished our sympathy, making us less interested in their pain.

Obviously the generation of student debtors will face a highly diminished future.

Meanwhile, a steady drip of experimental results has diminished the uncertainty over whether or not the two diseases are the same.

Learn what happens when an alpha male chimpanzee's status is diminished.

As nickel dropped decreased, methanogens producing methane diminished.

Their ambitions diminish, and their ability to pull off even those diminished ambitions don't succeed.

Tenured faculty members, likewise, are increasingly unavailable as a direct result of their diminished relative numbers.

But even after a century, that diminished population may yet hold a surprise.

When the glaciers are gone, some decades from now, the water supply will be diminished.

Those records showed that the length of time the fog hung around at ground level during the day had radically diminished.

To call them sea monsters may be a bit sensationalistic, but scientific study has not diminished their enigmatic nature.

Over the past eight years, my dreams of teaching at a university have diminished.

Hanging on to the bank until stockmarkets picked up might have sharply diminished its remaining franchise value.

The economic crisis has put many expansion projects on hold, but it has not diminished the long-term prospects for the oil sands.

Developing plans to address a possible electricity supply deficit if hydropower is diminished.

In econospeak, the hedonic benefits of bidding on eBay diminished.

All of these have diminished the will to fund public higher education.

Nor is it diminished by the fact that this particular race was not to the finishing-post, but to the starting-line.

Time has not diminished this human need for reflection.

I've noticed whenever we're in the wilderness for more than a few days, our swings are greatly diminished.

When expertise is diminished to such an extent, irrationality and fear can run amok.

Tenure bound her ambition and diminished her freedom.

The post argues for interdependancy not to have diminished.

It makes a huge difference social-ecologically to have diminished biodiversity in our human constructed environments.

It is highly doubtful that this trend has diminished over the last decade.

It's a process in which your senses are hyperactive and yet your self-awareness is strangely diminished.

The middle-aged face falling real wages and diminished pension rights.

Didier's canoe diminished into a darkening sea that seem sketched in charcoal.

When the culture of a people dies the richness of the whole planet is diminished.

First, the server crashes and scams of yesteryear have diminished.

Yet in recent years its political clout has diminished.

They might be diminished in terms of richness, but languages of heritage can still be extremely valuable.

As the universe expands, that energy is diminished as it is dispersed.

But the overall level of anxiety appears not to have diminished at all.

Fox visited recently, and publicly said that the symptoms of his disease were diminished when he was there.

Additionally, science is neither frightened nor diminished by admitting that there are things it doesn't know.

But later years may come with a diminished quality of life.

In the past few seasons, however, the team's unusually fantastic record has slowly diminished.

But as other countries started rebuilding their economies, the advantage gradually diminished.

The loss of the element of surprise diminished the chance of a live capture.

The chances of a driven student's attending college were not diminished by a less-involved counseling office.

It's an honest photo diminished by comments that are dishonest about the endangerment of polar bears.

At that price, you're so far into technological diminished returns that this thing.

There is a test to determine if a woman has diminished follicle reserves.

Their numbers have been diminished by the increased professionalization of both jobs.

That, and the fact that modern scientific investigation tends to be a team effort, has diminished the cult of the celebrity.

One thing that appears to happen is that phone-using drivers of all ages have significantly diminished reaction times.

There are several examples from nature where organisms have undergone a reduction in size in light of diminished resources.

The power of its archival images hasn't diminished with familiarity.

Postmaturity can carry risks such as diminished amniotic fluid.

The world is diminished and its light darkened by his.

Either way, shortening is linked to chronic disease risk and diminished longevity.

The world is diminished by the loss of his unique talent and generous heart.

Leahy is blind in his right eye, and the sight in his left eye is diminished because of damage to his brain's right frontal lobe.

Henry demonstrated that boosting people's sense of self-worth diminished aggressive tendencies amongst low-status individuals.

The cause is generally ascribed to a combination of diminished solar activity and large volcanic eruptions.

Those whom she touched were lifted by her presence and will be diminished by her absence.

Diminished sense of smell can be caused by sinus problems.

Astronauts have often reported having a diminished sense of taste when in outer space.

In doing this, they somehow diminished their trama and increased their survival and seemed fairly content and happy.

Its use hasn't ceased completely, but it's diminished enough to slow the vulture die-off.

The downpour increased northward and diminished south of it.

Diminished resources for public elementary and secondary.

But his account is diminished by a lack of context.

Her heartbreaking absence from our lives will leave us forever diminished.

It is the percentage paid by the states of total university budgets that has diminished notably.

His government's chances of lasting the year have diminished.

We are all diminished by the loss of his blazing intellect and provocative rascally ways.

Political meddling and match-fixing have diminished.

The second time around, the speed-up was markedly diminished.

Fairey's transition from rogue street artist to art professional hasn't diminished his radical edge.

The modest debut of the digital set-top box reflects its diminished role in the future of the cable industry.

For a long time its significance amongst faculty has diminished.

As violence has diminished in the past few years, calls for better services have grown more urgent.

His record releases however have not diminished in any way.

But even with the diminished power, the car had excellent acceleration.

But our capacity to communicate nonetheless seems, for some mysterious reason, to have diminished radically.

He's attuned to a world in which writers must adapt or die in an age of diminished glamour surrounding literary product.

The continuing bidding war is likely to result in diminished returns for the states.

All creatures are heading towards extinction, the natural result of diminished genetic coding.

But this is a learned experience, and unfortunately our culture, with diminished families and attacks on youth from the.

However, none of them feel that their experience would have been diminished without graduation.

His redneck concern is that his manhood has been diminished by this cancerous attach on his reproductive gland.

In rivers with severely diminished flows, for instance, native trout don't get the fast-moving water and gravel bottoms they.

However, they contend that because of childhood abuse he had a diminished capacity to knowingly commit such a crime.

But what it does say is that your chances of getting that job will be significantly diminished.

But the ennui also conveys diminished creative vigor.

Streleski received a sentence of seven years based on a defense of diminished capacity, according to newspaper accounts.

But the effect was to show how much the threat they pose has diminished.

Also this article is diminished by not taking into account incidents of violence.

S protection of wetlands has diminished in recent years.

All of these changes have given newspapers a diminished role in the presentation of news.

We have diminished the arts, the feminine, and the intuitive.

Second, the dangers from debt restructuring have diminished even as the costs of delay are rising.

The snowpack-already diminished by drought-melts earlier in.

As is the danger with any term deemed more inclusive and acceptable, it is rapidly becoming diminished via overuse.

The academy is already in enough trouble with diminished standards, rampant corruption and lack of accountability.

The costs for companies to address financial markets are likely to increase and their ability to raise funding diminished.

Its mystique may not have disappeared, but it certainly diminished.

In a career where labor and education often don't lead to economic gains, it is easy to feel diminished by society.

The location challenge would still be there, but diminished substantially.

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World English Dictionary

diminished (dɪˈmɪnɪʃt)

—*adj*
1.	reduced or lessened; made smaller
2.	music denoting any minor or perfect interval reduced by a semitone
3.	music denoting a triad consisting of the root plus a minor third and a diminished fifth
4.	(postpositive) music (esp in jazz or pop music) denoting a diminished seventh chord having as its root the note specified: B diminished

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Word Origin & History

diminish

early 15c., from merger of two obsolete verbs, diminue and minish. Diminue is from O.Fr. diminuer "make small," from L. diminuere "break into small pieces," variant of deminuere "lessen, diminish," from de- "completely" + minuere "make small," from root of minus (see

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minus). Related: Diminished; diminishes; diminishing. Minish is from O.Fr. menuisier, from L. minuere.

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