diminish

He exploited a physique that most would try desperately to diminish.

The founder shut it down and left the state, hoping that time away would diminish the danger.

Even as the ranks of culture warriors on the right diminish, their zeal seems to intensify.

Perry and others seem to completely diminish the agency of South Sudanese in their own history.

Davis' abortion narrative has helped diminish the social stigma surrounding abortion.

For this reason they were obliged to diminish their rations, of which they had rather a small quantity.

To unduly increase rates would diminish traffic and induce competition by road and sea.

This evidence does not require us to abandon the supposition that the tides tend to diminish the earth's rate of rotation.

The result is, with the inward retreat of the steep it enters on conditions which diminish the effectiveness of the wave stroke.

At the same time the alluvial materials, building out to sea, thus diminish the slope of the stream.