Reduce drastically

Usage examples of minimize.

To be honest, I minimized it a bit in my own mind because I recalled receiving an anthrax hoax letter three years before.

Charlotte wondered, as the doctor unwrapped the bandages covering her hands and mumbled something about minimizing necrosis and physical therapy.

Although the participatory nature of introspective observation may well be inescapable, it may be possible to refine this process so that distortion is minimized.

When I limped into a chemist looking for liniment, I found they were selling something called prostaglandin modulators, anti-inflammatory compounds that allegedly minimized damage without shutting down any vital repair processes.

There were inevitable awkward moments that could only be surmounted by the exercise of considerable tact, and the hours which Lady Arabella passed sitting to Quarrington for her portrait, while Magda wandered alone through the woods or sculled a solitary boat up the river, helped to minimize the strain considerably.

Operations studied and restudied the various ways the crossing and invasion might go right or wrong, and how a good turn of fortune could be exploited, a bad turn minimized.

Alyeska employees had been working feverishly during that time to clean up and minimize the effects of the accident, to remove the evidence of a major spillage and to conceal the fact that their failsafe system had failed dangerously.

Her generous breasts had always made her self-conscious, so she used minimizing underwire bras that made her feel more contained and less conspicuous.

And we must not minimize what the Peace of Augsburg actually accomplished.

Ekdokhan has past occurrences of siding with ometvaheem from poorer families, especially minimizing past behavioral problems so those ometvaheem may marry.

His penis would be catheterized as well, but that would be done after he was unconscious to minimize the discomfort.

But when it is considered that these same experiments might have been conducted under the influence of an anaesthetic, so as to minimize, if not remove, this needless suffering, this cold-blooded, heartless torture can only be characterized as contemptible and monstrous.

Having third parties take the blame helps minimize the emotional content.

A thousand cables were clearly labeled with nonremovable, easy-to-read tags, to minimize downtime in case of technical failure.

Communist parties, far from conjuring up civil war artificially, rather strive to shorten its duration as much as possible--in case it has become an iron necessity--to minimize the number of its victims, and, above all, to secure victory for the proletariat.