diminishing 的 2 个定义
- 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.
- to lessen; decrease.
diminishing 近义词
become or cause to be less
belittle
更多diminishing例句
- 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.