English English Dictionary
- diminish in English:
1. reduce
We have considered your proposal, and we have decided that we are not able to reduce the price.
When you rely on the team too much, it may reduce your individual competitive instincts.
Moving to a smaller place will reduce the expenses.
To reduce misunderstandings we should learn the techniques for communicating successfully.
I've heard that eating one or two servings of fish a week will reduce your chances of getting heart disease.
reduce the anxiety
It cannot reasonably be assumed that decreasing the dose would reduce the risk of side-effects.
We must make the utmost effort to reduce the use of plastic packaging, and also to recycle all waste plastic.
Reduce to pulp by boiling.
Our firm is a giant one, and there are some rules and regulations, which should be revised or rescinded to reduce red tape and increase efficiency.
That company aims to reduce employee numbers by arranging a lot of retirement money for voluntary redundancies.
Many people reduce eating sweets, because sugar is not healthy.
The number of employees was reduced from 500 to 300.
We should reduce pollution in towns
I do not fear terrorists but those who want to make us fear terrorists to be able to reduce our freedom.
2. to decrease in size
3. to reduce or be reduced in size or importance
English word "diminish"(to reduce or be reduced in size or importance) occurs in sets:
New Year's Challenge 👑4. to make less of something
English word "diminish"(to make less of something) occurs in sets:
TOEFL - Most important words 151 - 1755. to reduce the size or importance
English word "diminish"(to reduce the size or importance) occurs in sets:
The economics of information6. fade
Her beauty will fade in time.
The color won't fade.
Over time, memories can fade or disappear.
The picture began to fade suddenly.
Flowers soon fade when they have been cut.
Some people are easy to remember, but others sort of fade into the background.
Marie’s smile slowly faded.
The advantages of writing in ink instatead of in pencil are that ink does not fade as pencil does.
With time, memories of that painful summer would fade away. The music began to fade. The walls had been faded by the sun.
My favourite black dress has faded.
If you hang your clothes out in the bright sun, they will fade.
The person becoming reliant on computers; because they are not exercising their own talents, those talents begin to fade.
It gradually becomes thinner and fades into space.
He stood over her, watching the life fade from her eyes.
Today, however, many of them hope the issue will quickly fade
7. getting smaller and smaller
English word "diminish"(getting smaller and smaller) occurs in sets:
tez tang. 26.048. means to make something become less
English word "diminish"(means to make something become less) occurs in sets:
AI Fighting Bias Or Keeping It Going.9. undermine
Virginia's new law prohibiting texting while driving may help to prevent car accidents, but it has some significant limitations that may ultimately undermine the effectiveness of the law.
Criticism just undermines their confidence.
Lies can undermine democracy.
Anyway, it would undermine my authority.
This could undermine years of hard work
Your brand was undermined by last deception.
So be realny careful to try to avoid screw-ups tat can undermine your brand
economic policies that threaten to undermine the health care system
As science develops all axioms are undermined.
The president has accused two cabinet ministers of working secretly to undermine his position/him.
A series of scandals have undermined people’s confidence in the government
There's a danger that people can use free speech to undermine the human rights of others.
They are conspiring to undermine it.
This crisis has undermined his position.
Many fear that cuts in the defense budget will undermine the military's effectiveness.
