minimize

Definition:
1. Make small or insignificant.
2. Represent as less significant or important.
3. Belittle.

Use 'minimize' in a sentence:

1. This will maximize the benefits and minimize the downsides of being a team player.
2. We need a new look at the harnessing of scientific discoveries, to maximize their positive effects for the promotion of humanity as a whole and to minimize their negative effects.
3. If acceptable social behavior is too strictly defined and controlled, the insensitive or aggressive behavior that administrators are seeking to minimize may actually be encouraged ．
4. Exposure to illnesses and parasites of other animals is minimized.
5. How do you minimize fuel costs?
6. We also defeated severe flooding. With the military and civilians20 heedless of danger and difficulty, and standing21 in unity6, we managed to minimize the damage of the floods.
7. Never disparage yourself or minimize your strength or power.
8. In fact, homework is driven by employers' desires to minimize fixed costs: homeworkers receive no benefits and are paid less than regular employees.
9. Minimize any windows you have opened.
10. To minimize computer requirements, system frequency response is often compromised.
11. We have especially reinforced out pacing in order to minimize the extent of any possible damage to the goods.
12. The active control of noise is a very effective method to minimize low frequency noise.
13. This is not to minimize the tragedy and pain such a loss can generate.
14. The next hearings will be structured differently in order to minimize the inquisitorial atmosphere.
15. They fought to minimize the law's impact by limiting definitions of key terms.
16. Apologies minimize conflict, lead to forgiveness, and serve to restore relationship closeness.
17. We should minimize the use of private cars, which emit a large amount of greenhouse gases.
18. It is recommended that all persons traveling on air flights, irrespective of which class they are in, drink lots of water and move their legs by walking whenever possible and by periodically flexing to minimize the risk of economy class syndrome.
19. To minimize the public expenditure of this country.
20. The delay due to the carry propagation through the adder stages can be minimized when a carry-look-ahead scheme is used.
21. Mothers wanting to minimize the risk of cot death should breastfeed their babies.
22. Wales has introduced special low speed limits to minimize pollution.
23. And I want to minimize that guy.
24. The plants also change shape, shrinking to minimize the surface area through which their remaining water might evaporate.
25. Concerned people want to minimize the risk of developing cancer.
26. Minimize the impact of visiting the place.
27. The establishment-muzzled press has minimized this important people's victory.
28. One reason people lie is to minimize a mistake.
29. The ailerons have differential travel to minimize adverse yaw.
30. In New Hampshire and afterward, with all the character attacks, I had to fight to keep my temper in check and minimize my tendency to whine when exhausted.
31. Energy expenditure can be minimized by a properly performed above-the-knee amputation.
32. And minimize the window.
33. Understanding the motives behind the impulse to lie might minimize this habit of lying.
34. Minimize sort operations.
35. In order to minimize the boundary layer effects, the nozzles were made as short as possible.
36. Supervise workers and monitors production quality to minimize rejections.
37. The right style of swimsuit can help to hide, minimize, or emphasize what you want it to.
38. The municipal government also renewed calls for residents to avoid outbound travels during the festival to minimize infection risks and promised to offer shopping coupons and free data packages to those who choose to stay put.
39. Subway said that it worked hard to minimize the impact of litter on communities, so it was "still down to the individual customer to dispose of their litter responsibly".
40. Professors sometimes implement policies designed to minimize students' use of digital devices, and some instructors even confiscate tablets and phones.
41. Good hygiene helps to minimize the risk of infection.
42. To minimize collateral damage maximum precision in bombing was required.
43. To minimize collateral damage, maximum precision in bombing was required.
44. Click the square icon again to minimize the window.
45. This does not minimize the supremacy of their achievements, which outstrip our own as the sub-four-minute milers outstrip our jogging.
46. He always tried to minimize his own faults, while exaggerating those of others.
47. Since Olympic Foods will soon celebrate its twenty-fifth birthday, we can expect that our long experience will enable us to minimize costs and thus maximize profits.
48. At his trial, he tried to minimize his behavior.