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Extenuate :: Extenuate (v. t.) To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate..

Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend..

Decrease :: Decrease (v. t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means..

Abirritant :: Abirritant (n.) A medicine that diminishes irritation.

Allay :: Allay (v. t.) To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside.

Diminish :: Diminish (v. t.) To take away; to subtract.

Diminishment :: Diminishment (n.) Diminution.

Waste :: Waste (v. i.) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less..

Light :: Light (superl.) Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished; as, light coin..

Diminutive :: Diminutive (a.) Tending to diminish.

Wearer :: Wearer (n.) That which wastes or diminishes.

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force..

Wane :: Wane (v. i.) To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon..

Break :: Break (v. t.) To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow..

Defalcation :: Defalcation (n.) That which is lopped off, diminished, or abated..

Lubricity :: Lubricity (n.) Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil..

Disquantity :: Disquantity (v. t.) To diminish the quantity of; to lessen.

Contract :: Contract (v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet..

Epitomize :: Epitomize (v. t.) To diminish, as by cutting off something; to curtail; as, to epitomize words..

Imbase :: Imbase (v. i.) To diminish in value.

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