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diminish

/dih-min-ish/US // dɪˈmɪn ɪʃ //UK // (dɪˈmɪnɪʃ) //

减弱,贬低,减轻,削弱

Related Words

decline衰退,减少,衰落,下降lower较低的,较低,低层,低级slacken弛缓,松懈,松弛,弛缓的ebb退潮,减压,退潮期,减震wane衰败,衰落,衰微,衰弱dwindle缩减,逐渐减少,萎缩,缩水lessen减轻,减少,减轻了,减低reduce减少,降低,削减,缩小recede退缩,退却,后退,消退temper节制,回火,脾气,锻炼decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌abate消减,削减,缩减,减轻subside减退,消退,减弱,沉降curtail缩减,削减,缩短,缩水shrink缩水,缩减,缩小,萎缩weaken削弱,弱化,减弱,削弱了minimize减少detract from减损,减损了,折损,减损了一些cut切,切割,削减,割abbreviate缩略语,缩略,简略,缩减

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
    • : Architecture. to give a form tapering inward from bottom to top.
    • : Music. to make smaller by a chromatic half step than the corresponding perfect or minor interval.
    • : to detract from the authority, honor, stature, or reputation of; disparage.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to lessen; decrease.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbbecome or cause to be less
Forms: diminished, diminishes, diminishing
Synonyms
abate消减,削减,缩减,减轻curtail缩减,削减,缩短,缩水decline衰退,减少,衰落,下降decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌dwindle缩减,逐渐减少,萎缩,缩水ebb退潮,减压,退潮期,减震lessen减轻,减少,减轻了,减低lower较低的,较低,低层,低级recede退缩,退却,后退,消退reduce减少,降低,削减,缩小shrink缩水,缩减,缩小,萎缩slacken弛缓,松懈,松弛,弛缓的subside减退,消退,减弱,沉降temper节制,回火,脾气,锻炼wane衰败,衰落,衰微,衰弱weaken削弱,弱化,减弱,削弱了abbreviate缩略语,缩略,简略,缩减attenuate衰减,递减,衰减的,渐进式close关闭,密切,结束,靠近contract合同,签约,契约,契约书cut切,切割,削减,割depreciate贬值,贬低,折旧,贬值的drain排水,排出,排水系统,排水渠extenuate天真无邪,天真无邪的,全心全意,全心全意的minify缩减,缩小,减轻,缩编moderate温和的,温和,温文尔雅,温顺的retrench缩减,缩紧,缩减开支,缩水shrivel萎缩,起皱纹,缩水,萎靡不振taper锥度,锥形,锥体,锥形的become smaller变小,变得更小,变得越来越小,变得更少die out灭亡,消亡,熄灭,灭顶之灾fade away消失,消失了,消逝,消失不见peter out熄灭,淘汰,灭亡,熄火
verbbelittle
Forms: diminished, diminishes, diminishing
Synonyms
detract from减损,减损了,折损,减损了一些minimize减少abuse滥用,虐待,辱骂,虐待行为cheapen廉价,削价,便宜,便宜化decry问罪,声讨,质询,质问demean贬低,贬抑,贬损,贬低他人depreciate贬值,贬低,折旧,贬值的derogate减损,克减,贬低,减损了devalue贬值,贬低,贬损,贬低价值pan平底锅,盘子,盘点,锅bad-mouth糟糕的口碑,恶口,烂嘴,糟粕cut down to size削足适履,缩减规模,缩减尺寸,缩减大小dispraise嘲笑dump on倾倒在,倾销,倾泻而下,倾泻在give comeuppance报应,报复,报酬,给予报应knock off high horse下马威,罢工,谢幕,下马poormouth大嘴,大嘴巴,大嘴鸟,大嘴猴put away收起,收起来,收回,收好put down撂倒,放下,撂下,撂倒了run down奔溃,坠落,奔溃的,流失tear down拆毁,拆除,拆掉,拆迁

Examples

  • These adjustments can help merchants replace diminished foot traffic with online traffic.

  • That number has grown, Hobson said, as resources have diminished.

  • The Vikings are close behind, though they were also diminished some by an offseason spent clearing cap space and acquiring draft picks — hence, the Diggs trade — and they look less imposing on paper as a result.

  • They say the trial pause shouldn’t diminish hope in AstraZeneca’s vaccine.

  • Like many housing authorities across the country, HACA has struggled with diminishing funding from the federal government.

  • He exploited a physique that most would try desperately to diminish.

  • The founder shut it down and left the state, hoping that time away would diminish the danger.

  • Even as the ranks of culture warriors on the right diminish, their zeal seems to intensify.

  • Perry and others seem to completely diminish the agency of South Sudanese in their own history.

  • Davis' abortion narrative has helped diminish the social stigma surrounding abortion.

  • For this reason they were obliged to diminish their rations, of which they had rather a small quantity.

  • To unduly increase rates would diminish traffic and induce competition by road and sea.

  • This evidence does not require us to abandon the supposition that the tides tend to diminish the earth's rate of rotation.

  • The result is, with the inward retreat of the steep it enters on conditions which diminish the effectiveness of the wave stroke.

  • At the same time the alluvial materials, building out to sea, thus diminish the slope of the stream.

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