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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diminish \Di*min"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diminished; p. pr. & vb. n. Diminishing.] [Pref. di- (= L. dis-) + minish: cf. L. diminuere, F. diminuer, OE. diminuen. See Dis-, and Minish.]
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To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
Not diminish, but rather increase, the debt.
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To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
This doth nothing diminish their opinion.
--Robynson (More's Utopia).I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
--Ezek. xxix. 15.O thou . . . at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads.
--Milton. (Mus.) To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
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To take away; to subtract.
Neither shall ye diminish aught from it.
--Deut. iv. 2.Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
Diminished scale, or Diminishing scale, a scale of gradation used in finding the different points for drawing the spiral curve of the volute.
--Gwilt.Diminishing rule (Arch.), a board cut with a concave edge, for fixing the entasis and curvature of a shaft.
Diminishing stile (Arch.), a stile which is narrower in one part than in another, as in many glazed doors.
Syn: To decrease; lessen; abate; reduce; contract; curtail; impair; degrade. See Decrease.
Wiktionary
1 lessened, reduced. 2 (context music English) reduced by a semitone v
(en-past of: diminish)
WordNet
adj. impaired by diminution [syn: lessened, vitiated, weakened]
(of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use; "partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm" [syn: atrophied, wasted] [ant: hypertrophied]
(of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval; "a diminished fifth"
made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small" [syn: belittled, small]
Wikipedia
Diminished is to make smaller or less or to cause to appear so.
Diminished may also refer to:
- Diminution in Music
- Diminished: A song in alternative rock band R.E.M.'s 1998 album Up↑
Usage examples of "diminished".
Adams with an animosity not diminished by the lapse of years since his defection from their party, strong in a consciousness of their own standing before their fellow citizens, the thirteen notables responded with much acrimony to Mr.
But when the atoms come under the influence of the higher-level morphogenetic field of a molecule, these probabilities are modified in such a way that the probability of events leading toward the actualization of the final form are enhanced, while the probability of other events is diminished.
On the 2d he was rather quieter, and the alarming symptoms diminished a little.
When they discreetly confronted the attaché with still photographs, he burst into laughter and asked them if they could supply him with copies to send to his wife in Paris to prove that his virility had not diminished during his two years in Moscow.
The water splashed down his legs to his hooves and flowed on out of the baobab tree, tapering off as its volume diminished.
The same causes have diminished the desire for a bimetallic standard, and make the difficulty of establishing a parity between silver and gold, for the present, almost insuperable.
From this moment the cries against the fisherman diminished, and as the Bucentaur, though still distant, was now in sight, interest in the issue of the race absorbed all other feelings.
My physical well-being almost made up for my greatly diminished sensitivity to the Bunraku puppeteers.
S, the epact J must be diminished by unity every centesimal year, excepting always the fourth.
Both sides had severe losses and as their numbers were diminished, they were replaced by the eager, available ruffians waiting in Cimarron for the opportunity to get paid for killing each other.
In its place he saw the whole planet, diminished as it had looked from the Coto docks.
He noted that the isle in the lagoon, which held one of the castle dovecots, was but little diminished in size.
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
It is a well-established physiological fact, that during the wakeful hours the vital energies are being expended, the powers of life diminished, and, if wakefulness is continued beyond a certain limit, the system becomes enfeebled and death is the result.
The Lamp of the North rose up in it, a huge green lantern, and the plain became white again, a diminished white but much more clearly seen now that the glimmery gray-ness had gone.