OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 15976

diminish

/dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
amenguar • diminuir (disused) • disminuir • jibarizar • parvificar
To make smaller.
The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each o…
amenguar • diminuecer (disused) • diminuirse (disused) • disminuirse • parvificarse
To become less or smaller.
In the latter years of its existence, BR was rationalising its estate by pulling down station buildings which were too large for its modern operational needs, or by shutting off pa…
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fa…