Definition of diminish

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Diminish (v. t.) To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

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Stegnotic :: Stegnotic (a.) Tending to render costive, or to diminish excretions or discharges generally..
Diminishment :: Diminishment (n.) Diminution.
Fine :: Fine (a.) To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually..
Rediminish :: Rediminish (v. t.) To diminish again.
Replenish :: Replenish (v. t.) To fill again after having been diminished or emptied; to stock anew; hence, to fill completely; to cause to abound..
Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines..
Antiplastic :: Antiplastic (a.) Diminishing plasticity.
Minish :: Minish (a.) To diminish; to lessen.
Light :: Light (superl.) Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished; as, light coin..
Diminute :: Diminute (a.) Small; diminished; diminutive.
Diminishing :: Diminishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diminis.
Wear :: Wear (v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually..
Interfere :: Interfere (v. i.) To act reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another; -- said of waves, rays of light, heat, etc. See Interference, 2..
Tarnish :: Tarnish (a.) To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the luster of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the purity of color..
Indiminishable :: Indiminishable (a.) Incapable of being diminished.
Depressomotor :: Depressomotor (a.) Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity..
Impair :: Impair (v. t.) To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value..
Teinoscope :: Teinoscope (n.) An instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; -- called also prism telescope.
Disquantity :: Disquantity (v. t.) To diminish the quantity of; to lessen.
Wearer :: Wearer (n.) That which wastes or diminishes.
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