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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   diminish

   • IPA[dəˈminiSH]

   美式

   • v.
     make or become less；make (someone or something) seem less impressive or valuable

   • verb: diminish, 3rd person present: diminishes, gerund or present participle: diminishing, past tense: diminished, past participle: diminished

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. make or become less a tax whose purpose is to diminish spending the pain will gradually diminish 同義詞 decrease, decline, reduce, lessen, shrink, ... 更多contract, grow smaller, fall off, drop off, slacken off, fall, drop, sink, slump, plummet, plunge, fall off a cliff, informalhit the floor, go through the floor, go downhill, reduce, curtail, cut, cut down, cut back, prune, pare down, lessen, lower, decrease, shrink, contract, narrow, constrict, restrict, limit, curb, check, blunt, weaken, make weaker, erode, undermine, sap, subside, wane, abate, dwindle, fade, decline, slacken, moderate, ebb, recede, die away, die down, die out, peter out, tail off, cool off, let up, fizzle out, settle down, come to an end, archaicremit反義詞 increase, increase, flare up, get worse
   • ▪ make (someone or something) seem less impressive or valuable the trial has aged and diminished him 同義詞 belittle, disparage, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, ... 更多devalue, demean, decry, cast aspersions on, speak ill of, speak badly of, run down, abuse, insult, revile, malign, vilify, slur, informalbad-mouth, pull to pieces, pull apart, sling mud at, do a hatchet job on, rubbish, slate, slag off, have a go at, rareasperse, derogate, vilipend, vituperate反義詞 boost

   片語

   • diminishing returns
   • the law of diminishing returns