Definition of diminish

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Diminish (v. t.) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.

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Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver..
Polyoptrum :: Polyoptrum (n.) A glass through which objects appear multiplied, but diminished in size..
Rabbate :: Rabbate (v. t.) To abate or diminish.
Diminish :: Diminish (v. t.) To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh..
Derogate :: Derogate (n.) Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded.
Diminishingly :: Diminishingly (adv.) In a manner to diminish.
Labor-saving :: Labor-saving (a.) Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, labor-saving machinery..
Rediminish :: Rediminish (v. t.) To diminish again.
Gather :: Gather (v. t.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like..
Evection :: Evection () An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1� 20'..
Pale :: Pale (v. t.) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
Decrease :: Decrease (v. t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means..
Antiplastic :: Antiplastic (a.) Diminishing plasticity.
Decline :: Decline (v. t.) To cause to decrease or diminish.
Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
Diminish :: Diminish (v. i.) To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it..
Disaffect :: Disaffect (v. t.) To alienate or diminish the affection of; to make unfriendly or less friendly; to fill with discontent and unfriendliness.
Entropy :: Entropy (n.) A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes. If a small amount, h, of heat enters the body when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the body is increased by h / t. The entropy is regarded as measured from some standard temperature and pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic f
Diminishment :: Diminishment (n.) Diminution.
Diminishing :: Diminishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diminis.
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