1 to become or to make sth become smaller, weaker, etc.
SYNDECREASE:
[V] The world's resources are rapidly diminishing. * His influence has diminished with time. * Our efforts were producing diminishing returns (= we achieved less although we spent more time or money). [also VN]
2 [VN] to make sb/sth seem less important than they really are:
I don't wish to diminish the importance of their contribution.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for diminish is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is diminish a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, diminish is tagged as verb.
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