Definition: 1. Decrease in size, extent, or range. 2. Lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of.
Use 'diminish' in a sentence:
1. As you get older, your skills diminish and the guys catch up with you.
2. Once he takes you away, your chances of survival greatly diminish.
3. Such collections of amyloid add to renal bulk, but diminish renal function.
4. Tough economic conditions and the spiraling cost of living have helped diminish appeal of male children.
5. The company planned to diminish the cost of production.
6. This fact, and the careful, solitary placement of the kiva in the center of the mission complex courtyards, suggests an intention to highlight the importance of the kiva rather than to diminish it.
7. And now we're going to diminish that just a bit.
8. In zones of increased turbulence, the planes' wakes will decay more quickly and the effect will diminish.
9. This could mean diminished public support for the war.
10. An occasional outburst didn't diminish my respect for her.
11. The threat of nuclear war has diminished.
12. When fighting corruption, it is more useful to try to diminish it rather than eradicate it.
13. The technologies themselves, and their makers, are the easiest suspects to blame for our diminishing attention spans.
14. Nevertheless, Gerteis argues, these disparate party affiliations did not diminish the actuality of reformer unity, most prominent in the 1830s.
15. Diminish inflammation. Resume from flu or quinsy. Release and calm down.
16. Will such differences between cultures persist and grow larger, or will they diminish over time?
17. He could no longer cope; he relied on me, and felt diminished by it.
18. This should help diminish the influence of trolls somewhat.
19. Our efforts were producing diminishing returns (= we achieved less although we spent more time or money) .
20. If you wait your chances of success will quickly diminish.
21. Have trust and let your teen know that you trust him. But if he lives up to your trust, his freedom will diminish until you can trust him again.
22. Borland was cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
23. A troubled region's capacity to cause trouble will not diminish.
24. Sometimes, to people, it sounds like this is a diminished rote for teachers.
25. Conversely, teachers who have a tendency to "overdirect" can diminish their gifted pupils' learning autonomy.
26. Universities are facing grave problems because of diminishing resources.
27. These measures will help us diminish military risk, act before crises and conflicts erupt, and ensure that governments are better able to serve their people.
28. Absence diminished as the new regulations are enforced.
29. Our efforts were producing diminishing returns.
30. It was growling like something demented, which it was, of course, and its backside was almost in my face even my peril in no way diminished the frightful stench of the creature.
31. The value of the US dollar will continue to diminish, along with Americans's fiscal freedom.
32. Yet, there are general ways to diminish the impact of complexity.
33. Our commitment is not to diminish services.
34. But the cessation of his hostility for Pen did not diminish Huxter's attentions to Fanny.
35. This is not to diminish the central bank, but it fulfils a largely technocratic function.
36. Yes, weve all made mistakesthat diminish us and those we love.
37. Water in the pond gradually diminished due to lack of rainfall.
38. But why diminish all this with clunky dialogue?
39. To treat their poems mainly as documents of personal experience is not just to diminish the poets' achievement, but to ignore their unanimous disdain for the idea of confessional poetry.
40. Costs rapidly escalated, and the potential "pay-off" for alloy development was diminishing.
41. They also aim to diminish systemic risk.
42. Several unpopular decisions diminished the governor's popularity.
43. The lesson taught by plants is that sharing life expands and enhances the sphere of the living, while dividing life into so-called natural or human resources diminishes it.
44. But even there, the risk is of diminishing returns.
45. The cost of the production greatly diminished.
46. His comments were only said to diminish the importance of her discoveries.
47. This algorithm is based on mask blind detection, which can diminish superfluous transmitted information.
48. The evidence suggests that our sense of touch is programmed to diminish with age.
49. Encounters of like charges act to diminish the coagulation rate.
50. That situation could diminish his talent—something he does have bags of.
51. Any sleep disturbance will diminish mental performance.
52. Cell phones also can diminish social tolerance because they reduce children's interactions with others who are different from them.
53. You could diminish responsibility in other ways.
54. You will see the struggles diminish quickly.
55. And finally, the ways to diminish defects and increase laser damage thresholds are also discussed.
56. Higher porosity and pore size result in greater bone ingrowth but diminish mechanical properties.
57. Age diminishes the heart's ability to pump harder and faster under exertion.
58. The patient is diminishing in strength.
59. Our water supply have diminish as a result of the drought.
60. In a bull market hedges should diminish returns.
61. We should try to diminish the cost of production.
62. Time will not diminish our friendship.
63. It diminishes us in the eyes of the world.
64. He was found not guilty of murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
65. He never put her down or diminished her.
66. Stress also plays a large role in diminishing health.
67. Those forces cause the objects to rise and thus diminish both surface and frontal resistance.
68. And then, I will quietly diminish in the crowd.
69. It will diminish the negative self-talk you may sometimes experience.
70. I don't wish to diminish the importance of their contribution.
71. Federalism is intended to diminish the power of the central state.
72. His influence has diminished with time.
73. The world's resources are rapidly diminishing.
74. Campaigners are shining a spotlight on the world's diminishing natural resources.
