diminish

suomi-englanti sanakirja

diminish englannista suomeksi

To make smaller.
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To become less or smaller.
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To lessen the authority or dignity of; to down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (''in gaming'').
(RQ:KJV)
1639, (w) (translator), ''(w)'' by (w), London, Book 2, “Of their journying or travelling abroad,” p. 197,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07711.0001.001

(..) this doth nothing diminish their opinion.

{{quote-text|en|year=1674|author=John Milton|title=Paradise Lost|section=Book 4, lines 32-35|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_IV
{{quote-book|en|year=1961|author=V. S. Naipaul|title=A House for Mr Biswas|location=London|publisher=André Deutsch|chapter=3
To taper.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=J.M. Dent|year_published=1904|chapter=8|page=120|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/394/394-h/394-h.htm
To disappear gradually.
{{quote-text|en|year=1948|author=Graham Greene|title=The Heart of the Matter|publisher=Penguin|year_published=1971|section=Part Two, Chapter 2, 1, p. 77|url=https://archive.org/details/heartofmatter00gree_1
To away; to subtract.