diminishv.

/dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s y for i, sshe for sh; Middle English–1500s deminish(e, 1500s Scottish dimimiss, dininuse.

Etymology: Formed under the joint influence of the earlier diminue v.French diminuer , Latin dīminuĕre , and minish v., earlier menusen, Old French menuiser, Latin type *minūtiāre to cut small, having the prefix of the one with the suffix of the other. Ancient Latin had dīminuĕre to break into small pieces, dash to pieces, and dēminuĕre to make smaller, lessen, reduce in size. In late Latin and Romanic the di- derivative supplanted the dē- form; hence the modern derivatives of Latin dēminuĕre all have dimin-.

I. transitive.

a. To make (or cause to appear) less or smaller; to lessen; to reduce in magnitude or degree. (The opposite of enlarge, increase, augment, magnify.)

ΘΠ

the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > reduce in size or extent [verb (transitive)]

thinc900

narroweOE

smalleOE

slakea1300

adminisha1325

minisha1382

reduce?c1400

diminish1417

littlea1500

extenuate1555

enstraiten1590

scantle1596

scant1599

bedwarfa1631

epitomize1630

dwarf1638

retrench1640

stunt1659

to take in1700

belittle1785

dwarfify1816

reduct1819

micrify1836

clip1858

downsize1977

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)]

littleeOE

anitherOE

wanzelOE

lessc1225

slakea1300

littenc1300

aslakec1314

adminisha1325

allayc1330

settle1338

low1340

minisha1382

reprovea1382

abatea1398

rebatea1398

subtlea1398

alaskia1400

forlyten?a1400

imminish14..

lessenc1410

diminish1417

repress?a1425

assuagec1430

scarcec1440

small1440

underslakec1440

alessa1450

debate?c1450

batec1460

decreasec1470

appetisse1474

alow1494

mince1499

perswage?1504

remita1513

inless?1521

attenuate1530

weaken1530

defray1532

mitigate1532

minorate1534

narrow?1548

diminuec1550

extenuate1555

amain1578

exolve1578

base1581

dejecta1586

amoinder1588

faint1598

qualify1604

contract1605

to pull down1607

shrivel1609

to take down1610

disaugment1611

impoverish1611

shrink1628

decoct1629

persway1631

unflame1635

straiten1645

depress1647

reduce1649

detract1654

minuate1657

alloy1661

lower?1662

sinka1684

retreat1690

nip1785

to drive down1840

minify1866

to knock down1867

to damp down1869

scale1887

mute1891

clip1938

to roll back1942

to cut back1943

downscale1945

downrate1958

slim1963

downshift1972

1417 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 61 Yf your forces be not here alwayes soe strongly mayntayned & continued without being deminished your Irish enimies..will rise agayne.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Biii Perauenture it diminysshed their peyne in hell.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 162 It greatly deminisheth the substance of them.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 169 The whole towne is diminished into one streete.

1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xxiv. 268 Whatsoeuer may diminish his estimation and authority.

1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. xii. 85 The weight must..be diminished in the same proportion.

1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ Rom. i. 12 What diminishes very much the suspicion of fraud.

1880 A. Geikie Elem. Lessons Physical Geogr. (new ed.) ii. §8. 53 The ascent of warm air must necessarily diminish atmospheric pressure.

†b. To clip, sweat, etc. (coin). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > mutilate coin [verb (transitive)]

roundc1400

wash1421

royna1475

clipa1513

rounge1540

diminish1569

scale1576

launder1612

sweat1785

shorten1857

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 126 There should be no deceyt vsed by diminishing or clipping y^e same.

1698 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 350 A French man is committed to Newgate for diminishing our coin.

†2. To break in pieces, break small. Obsolete. rare. [ < classical Latin dīminuĕre.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break to pieces, shatter, or burst

to-breakc888

briteOE

to-shenec950

abreakOE

forgnidea1000

to-brytc1000

to-burstc1000

to-driveOE

shiverc1200

to-shiverc1200

to-reavec1225

shiverc1250

debruise1297

to-crack13..

to-frushc1300

to-sliftc1315

chinec1330

littlec1350

dingc1380

bruisea1382

burst1382

rushc1390

shinderc1390

spald?a1400

brittenc1400

pashc1400

forbruise1413

to break, etc. into sherds1426

shattera1450

truncheon1477

scarboyle1502

shonk1508

to-shattera1513

rash1513

shidera1529

grind1535

infringe1543

dishiver1562

rupture1578

splinter1582

tear1582

disshiver1596

upburst1596

to burst up1601

diminish1607

confract1609

to blow (shiver, smash, tear, etc.) to or into atoms1612

dishatter1615

vanquashc1626

beshiver1647

disfrange1778

smash1778

explode1784

bust1806

spell1811

smithereen1878

shard1900

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 634 In Rhætia..they hold betwixt the fighting of rams a sticke or bat of Corne-tree, which in a bout or two they vtterly diminish and bruse in peeces.

3. To lessen in importance, estimation, or power; to put down, degrade, humiliate; to detract from, disparage, belittle. archaic. (See also diminished adj. 2.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]

anitherOE

fellOE

lowc1175

to lay lowc1225

to set adownc1275

snuba1340

meekc1350

depose1377

aneantizea1382

to bring lowa1387

declinea1400

meekenc1400

to pull downc1425

avalec1430

to-gradea1440

to put downc1440

humble1484

alow1494

deject?1521

depress1526

plucka1529

to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533

to bring down1535

to bring basec1540

adbass1548

diminish1560

afflict1561

to take down1562

to throw down1567

debase1569

embase1571

diminute1575

to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576

exinanite1577

to take (a person) a peg lower1589

to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589

disbasea1592

to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592

comb-cut1593

unpuff1598

atterr1605

dismount1608

annihilate1610

crest-fall1611

demit1611

pulla1616

avilea1617

to put a scorn on, upon1633

mortify1639

dimit1658

to put a person's pipe out1720

to let down1747

to set down1753

humiliate1757

to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789

start1821

squabash1822

to wipe a person's eye1823

to crop the feathers of1827

embarrass1839

to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864

to sit upon ——1864

squelch1864

to cut out of all feather1865

to sit on ——1868

to turn down1870

to score off1882

to do (a person) in the eye1891

puncture1908

to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908

to cut down to size1927

flatten1932

to slap (a person) down1938

punk1963

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > degrade [verb (transitive)]

vile1297

supplanta1382

to bring lowa1387

revilea1393

gradea1400

villain1412

abject?a1439

to-gradea1440

vilifyc1450

villainy1483

disparage1496

degradea1500

deject?1521

disgraduate1528

disgress1528

regrade1534

base1538

diminute1575

lessen1579

to turn down1581

to pitch (a person) over the bar?1593

disesteem1594

degender1596

unnoble1598

disrank1599

reduce1599

couch1602

disthrone1603

displume1606

unplume1621

disnoble1622

disworth?1623

villainize1623

unglory1626

ungraduate1633

disennoble1645

vilicate1646

degraduate1649

bemean1651

deplume1651

lower1653

cheapen1654

dethrone1659

diminish1667

scoundrel1701

sink1706

demean1715

abjectate1731

unglorifya1740

unmagnify1747

undignify1768

to take the shine out of (less frequently from, U.S. off)1819

dishero1838

misdemean1843

downgrade1892

demote1919

objectify1973

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > disparage or depreciate [verb (transitive)]

littleeOE

low1340

dispraisec1386

minish1402

deroge1427

detractc1449

descryc1450

detrayc1475

dismerit1484

decline1509

vilipend1509

disprize?1518

disable1528

derogatea1530

elevate1541

disparagea1556

detrect1563

debase1565

demerit1576

vilify1586

disgrace1589

detracta1592

besparage1592

enervate1593

obtrect1595

extenuate1601

disvalue1605

disparagon1610

undervalue1611

avile1615

debaucha1616

to cry down1616

debate1622

decry1641

atomize1645

underrate1646

naucify1653

dedignify1654

stuprate1655

de-ample1657

dismagn1657

slur1660

voguec1661

depreciate1666

to run down1671

baffle1674

lacken1674

sneer1706

diminish1712

substract1728

down1780

belittle1789

carbonify1792

to speak scorn of1861

to give one a back-cap1903

minoritize1947

mauvais langue1952

rubbish1953

down-talk1959

marginalize1970

marginate1970

trash1975

neg1987

1560 Bible (Geneva) Ezek. xxix. 15 I wil diminish them, that they shal no more rule the nations.

1666 S. Pepys Diary 24 June (1972) VII. 180 He doth plainly diminish the commanders put in by the Duke, and doth lessen the miscarriages of any that have been removed by him.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 612 While impiously they thought Thee to diminish, and from thee withdraw The number of thy worshippers.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 348. ⁋ 2 This impertinent Humour of diminishing every one who is produced in Conversation.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 206 You would have accused me of diminishing your honour.

1880 R. Broughton Second Thoughts I. i. vi. 99 She..passes out, angered, humbled, diminished past compare.

†4.

a. To take away (a part) from something, so as to make it less; hence gen. to take away, subtract, remove. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away

ateec885

withbreidec890

animOE

overbearOE

to do awayOE

flitc1175

reavec1175

takec1175

to have away?a1300

to draw awayc1300

weve13..

to wend awaya1325

withdrawa1325

remuec1325

to carry away1363

to take away1372

waive1377

to long awaya1382

oftakec1390

to draw offa1398

to do froa1400

forflitc1420

amove?a1425

to carry out?a1425

surtrayc1440

surtretec1440

twistc1440

abstract1449

ostea1450

remove1459

ablatea1475

araisea1475

redd1479

dismove1480

diminish?1504

convey1530

alienate1534

retire1536

dimove1540

reversec1540

subtractc1540

submove1542

sublate1548

pare1549

to pull in1549

exempt1553

to shift off1567

retract?1570

renversec1586

aufer1587

to lay offa1593

rear1596

retrench1596

unhearse1596

exemea1600

remote1600

to set off1600

subduct1614

rob1627

extraneize1653

to bring off1656

to pull back1656

draft1742

extract1804

reef1901

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > deduction > deduct [verb (transitive)]

abatec1400

rebate1425

batec1440

minishc1483

diminish?1504

detract1509

detray1509

deduct1524

defalkc1540

defalcate1541

subtray1549

derogate1561

discount1561

deduce?1566

substract1592

to strike off1597

reduct1600

subtract1610

subduct1716

to knock off1811

dock1891

shave1961

minus1963

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > deduction > deduct [verb (transitive)] > detract from

takec1475

diminish?1504

derogate1556

to take off1639

to detract from1699

?1504 M. Beaufort tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) iv. ix Take from our hertis..all that may..dimynyshe vs from thy eternall loue.

?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye ii. sig. h3^v Neyther adde any thinge nor diminish.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxvii The..loue betwene them, washed awaie and diminished all suspicion.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Sulpicius in Panoplie Epist. 24 Thus much was diminished from the state of the empyre.

1611 Bible (King James) Deut. iv. 2 Ye shall not adde vnto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish ought from it.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 64 Your swords..may as well Wound the loud windes..as diminish One dowle that's in my plumbe.

a1627 J. Hayward Life & Raigne Edward Sixt (1630) 102 Nothing was deminished either from the safety or glory of the King by imprisonment of the Duke.

†b. absol. To abate, subtract. Obsolete.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vii. §6 That we should not add to nor diminish from Gods commands.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 159 Nothing..should be admitted to diminish from the real Majesty of the ceremony.

1826 R. H. Froude Remains (1838) I. 74 His command..will no more diminish from the sum of our pleasures than [etc.].

†5. To deprive (a person) in part, to curtail of.

ΘΠ

the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of)

benimc890

to do of ——eOE

bedealc1000

disturbc1230

bereavec1275

reave?a1300

acquitc1300

benemec1300

deprivec1330

privea1382

subvertc1384

oppressc1395

abridgea1400

to bate of, from1399

lessa1400

nakena1400

dischargea1425

privatec1425

to bring outa1450

abatec1450

sever?1507

spulyie?1507

denude1513

disable1529

distrain1530

destituec1540

destitutec1540

defalk1541

to turn out of ——1545

discomfit1548

wipe1549

nude1551

disannul?a1556

bereft1557

diminish1559

benoom1563

joint1573

uncase1583

rid1585

disarm1590

visitc1592

ease1600

dispatch1604

unfurnisha1616

rig1629

retrench1640

unbecomea1641

disentail1641

cashier1690

twin1722

mulct1748

fordo1764

to do out of ——1796

to cut out1815

bate1823

deprivate1832

devoid1878

1559 Bp. Cox in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. vi. 98 If now then the builders..be diminished of their wages.

1610 Bible (Douay) II. Psalms xxxiii. 11 They that seeke after our Lord shal not be diminished of any good.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 226 The whole circle seemed diminished of their former importance.

6. Architecture. To make (a thing) such that its successive parts in any direction are continuously less and less; to cause to taper or progressively decrease in size, as a tapering column: see diminution n. 9.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [verb (transitive)] > cause to taper

diminish1624

1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 22 They [pillars] are all diminished..from one third part of the whole Shaft.

1797 Monthly Mag. 3 221 The sides form the arch joints of the bridge, and are diminished, so as to tend towards the centre of the circle.

7. Music.

†a. To reduce in loudness, make gradually softer: cf. diminuendo n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > volume > [verb (transitive)] > decrease in volume

diminish1664

1664 J. Playford Brief Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 4) i. 64 It shall work a better effect to Tune the Voyce, diminishing of it, than Increasing of it.

Categories »

b. To lessen (an interval) by a semitone: see diminished adj. 4.

II. intransitive.

a. To become less or smaller; to lessen, decrease.

ΘΠ

the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > become reduced in size or extent [verb (intransitive)]

narrowOE

waneOE

smallOE

slakec1380

welk1390

fade1398

lessenc1400

minish?a1425

decay1489

adminisha1500

diminish1520

to grow downwards?1523

ungrow1598

scant1607

settlea1642

to run off1765

dwarf1776

comminute1850

downsize1977

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > decrease in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (intransitive)]

littleOE

setc1000

wanzec1175

lessc1225

allayc1275

wane1297

slaken1303

disincreasec1374

slakec1380

decrease1382

debatea1400

unwaxa1400

wastea1400

adminishc1400

lessenc1400

imminish14..

aslakec1405

minish?a1425

assuagec1430

shrinkc1449

to let down1486

decay1489

diminish1520

fall1523

rebate1540

batea1542

to come down1548

abate1560

stoop1572

pine1580

slack1580

scanten1585

shrivel1588

decrew1596

remit1629

contract1648

subside1680

lower1697

relax1701

drop1730

to take off1776

to run down1792

reduce1798

recede1810

to run off1816

to go down1823

attenuatea1834

ease1876

downscale1945

1520 Chron. Eng. ii. f. 11/2 Kyng Goffars people encreased dayly and his dyminished.

1565 Earl of Bedford in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 215 As their force dimenesshede so dyd her Grace increace.

1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. *Aij What Judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 284 Crete's ample fields diminish to our eye.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 16 The sound..diminishes in intensity.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 78 The air diminished in bulk, while the quicksilver increased in weight.

b. Architecture. To have its dimensions successively smaller in the same direction; to taper.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [verb (intransitive)] > taper

diminish1715

1715 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture I. xiii. 18 In the diminishing of them [sc. columns] it must be observ'd, that by how much longer they are, by so much the less they must diminish.

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单词	diminish
释义	diminishv. /dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s y for i, sshe for sh; Middle English–1500s deminish(e, 1500s Scottish dimimiss, dininuse. Etymology: Formed under the joint influence of the earlier diminue v.French diminuer , Latin dīminuĕre , and minish v., earlier menusen, Old French menuiser, Latin type minūtiāre to cut small, having the prefix of the one with the suffix of the other. Ancient Latin had dīminuĕre* to break into small pieces, dash to pieces, and dēminuĕre to make smaller, lessen, reduce in size. In late Latin and Romanic the di- derivative supplanted the dē- form; hence the modern derivatives of Latin dēminuĕre all have dimin-. I. transitive. 1. a. To make (or cause to appear) less or smaller; to lessen; to reduce in magnitude or degree. (The opposite of enlarge, increase, augment, magnify.) ΘΠ the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > reduce in size or extent [verb (transitive)] thinc900 narroweOE smalleOE slakea1300 adminisha1325 minisha1382 reduce?c1400 diminish1417 littlea1500 extenuate1555 enstraiten1590 scantle1596 scant1599 bedwarfa1631 epitomize1630 dwarf1638 retrench1640 stunt1659 to take in1700 belittle1785 dwarfify1816 reduct1819 micrify1836 clip1858 downsize1977 the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] littleeOE anitherOE wanzelOE lessc1225 slakea1300 littenc1300 aslakec1314 adminisha1325 allayc1330 settle1338 low1340 minisha1382 reprovea1382 abatea1398 rebatea1398 subtlea1398 alaskia1400 forlyten?a1400 imminish14.. lessenc1410 diminish1417 repress?a1425 assuagec1430 scarcec1440 small1440 underslakec1440 alessa1450 debate?c1450 batec1460 decreasec1470 appetisse1474 alow1494 mince1499 perswage?1504 remita1513 inless?1521 attenuate1530 weaken1530 defray1532 mitigate1532 minorate1534 narrow?1548 diminuec1550 extenuate1555 amain1578 exolve1578 base1581 dejecta1586 amoinder1588 faint1598 qualify1604 contract1605 to pull down1607 shrivel1609 to take down1610 disaugment1611 impoverish1611 shrink1628 decoct1629 persway1631 unflame1635 straiten1645 depress1647 reduce1649 detract1654 minuate1657 alloy1661 lower?1662 sinka1684 retreat1690 nip1785 to drive down1840 minify1866 to knock down1867 to damp down1869 scale1887 mute1891 clip1938 to roll back1942 to cut back1943 downscale1945 downrate1958 slim1963 downshift1972 1417 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 61 Yf your forces be not here alwayes soe strongly mayntayned & continued without being deminished your Irish enimies..will rise agayne. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Biii Perauenture it diminysshed their peyne in hell. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 162 It greatly deminisheth the substance of them. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 169 The whole towne is diminished into one streete. 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xxiv. 268 Whatsoeuer may diminish his estimation and authority. 1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. xii. 85 The weight must..be diminished in the same proportion. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ Rom. i. 12 What diminishes very much the suspicion of fraud. 1880 A. Geikie Elem. Lessons Physical Geogr. (new ed.) ii. §8. 53 The ascent of warm air must necessarily diminish atmospheric pressure. †b. To clip, sweat, etc. (coin). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > mutilate coin [verb (transitive)] roundc1400 wash1421 royna1475 clipa1513 rounge1540 diminish1569 scale1576 launder1612 sweat1785 shorten1857 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 126 There should be no deceyt vsed by diminishing or clipping y^e same. 1698 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 350 A French man is committed to Newgate for diminishing our coin. †2. To break in pieces, break small. Obsolete. rare. [ < classical Latin dīminuĕre.] ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break to pieces, shatter, or burst to-breakc888 briteOE to-shenec950 abreakOE forgnidea1000 to-brytc1000 to-burstc1000 to-driveOE shiverc1200 to-shiverc1200 to-reavec1225 shiverc1250 debruise1297 to-crack13.. to-frushc1300 to-sliftc1315 chinec1330 littlec1350 dingc1380 bruisea1382 burst1382 rushc1390 shinderc1390 spald?a1400 brittenc1400 pashc1400 forbruise1413 to break, etc. into sherds1426 shattera1450 truncheon1477 scarboyle1502 shonk1508 to-shattera1513 rash1513 shidera1529 grind1535 infringe1543 dishiver1562 rupture1578 splinter1582 tear1582 disshiver1596 upburst1596 to burst up1601 diminish1607 confract1609 to blow (shiver, smash, tear, etc.) to or into atoms1612 dishatter1615 vanquashc1626 beshiver1647 disfrange1778 smash1778 explode1784 bust1806 spell1811 smithereen1878 shard1900 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 634 In Rhætia..they hold betwixt the fighting of rams a sticke or bat of Corne-tree, which in a bout or two they vtterly diminish and bruse in peeces. 3. To lessen in importance, estimation, or power; to put down, degrade, humiliate; to detract from, disparage, belittle. archaic. (See also diminished adj. 2.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] anitherOE fellOE lowc1175 to lay lowc1225 to set adownc1275 snuba1340 meekc1350 depose1377 aneantizea1382 to bring lowa1387 declinea1400 meekenc1400 to pull downc1425 avalec1430 to-gradea1440 to put downc1440 humble1484 alow1494 deject?1521 depress1526 plucka1529 to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533 to bring down1535 to bring basec1540 adbass1548 diminish1560 afflict1561 to take down1562 to throw down1567 debase1569 embase1571 diminute1575 to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576 exinanite1577 to take (a person) a peg lower1589 to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589 disbasea1592 to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592 comb-cut1593 unpuff1598 atterr1605 dismount1608 annihilate1610 crest-fall1611 demit1611 pulla1616 avilea1617 to put a scorn on, upon1633 mortify1639 dimit1658 to put a person's pipe out1720 to let down1747 to set down1753 humiliate1757 to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789 start1821 squabash1822 to wipe a person's eye1823 to crop the feathers of1827 embarrass1839 to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 to cut out of all feather1865 to sit on ——1868 to turn down1870 to score off1882 to do (a person) in the eye1891 puncture1908 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 to cut down to size1927 flatten1932 to slap (a person) down1938 punk1963 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > degrade [verb (transitive)] vile1297 supplanta1382 to bring lowa1387 revilea1393 gradea1400 villain1412 abject?a1439 to-gradea1440 vilifyc1450 villainy1483 disparage1496 degradea1500 deject?1521 disgraduate1528 disgress1528 regrade1534 base1538 diminute1575 lessen1579 to turn down1581 to pitch (a person) over the bar?1593 disesteem1594 degender1596 unnoble1598 disrank1599 reduce1599 couch1602 disthrone1603 displume1606 unplume1621 disnoble1622 disworth?1623 villainize1623 unglory1626 ungraduate1633 disennoble1645 vilicate1646 degraduate1649 bemean1651 deplume1651 lower1653 cheapen1654 dethrone1659 diminish1667 scoundrel1701 sink1706 demean1715 abjectate1731 unglorifya1740 unmagnify1747 undignify1768 to take the shine out of (less frequently from, U.S. off)1819 dishero1838 misdemean1843 downgrade1892 demote1919 objectify1973 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > disparage or depreciate [verb (transitive)] littleeOE low1340 dispraisec1386 minish1402 deroge1427 detractc1449 descryc1450 detrayc1475 dismerit1484 decline1509 vilipend1509 disprize?1518 disable1528 derogatea1530 elevate1541 disparagea1556 detrect1563 debase1565 demerit1576 vilify1586 disgrace1589 detracta1592 besparage1592 enervate1593 obtrect1595 extenuate1601 disvalue1605 disparagon1610 undervalue1611 avile1615 debaucha1616 to cry down1616 debate1622 decry1641 atomize1645 underrate1646 naucify1653 dedignify1654 stuprate1655 de-ample1657 dismagn1657 slur1660 voguec1661 depreciate1666 to run down1671 baffle1674 lacken1674 sneer1706 diminish1712 substract1728 down1780 belittle1789 carbonify1792 to speak scorn of1861 to give one a back-cap1903 minoritize1947 mauvais langue1952 rubbish1953 down-talk1959 marginalize1970 marginate1970 trash1975 neg1987 1560 Bible (Geneva) Ezek. xxix. 15 I wil diminish them, that they shal no more rule the nations. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 24 June (1972) VII. 180 He doth plainly diminish the commanders put in by the Duke, and doth lessen the miscarriages of any that have been removed by him. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 612 While impiously they thought Thee to diminish, and from thee withdraw The number of thy worshippers. View more context for this quotation 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 348. ⁋ 2 This impertinent Humour of diminishing every one who is produced in Conversation. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 206 You would have accused me of diminishing your honour. 1880 R. Broughton Second Thoughts I. i. vi. 99 She..passes out, angered, humbled, diminished past compare. †4. a. To take away (a part) from something, so as to make it less; hence gen. to take away, subtract, remove. Obsolete. ΘΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away ateec885 withbreidec890 animOE overbearOE to do awayOE flitc1175 reavec1175 takec1175 to have away?a1300 to draw awayc1300 weve13.. to wend awaya1325 withdrawa1325 remuec1325 to carry away1363 to take away1372 waive1377 to long awaya1382 oftakec1390 to draw offa1398 to do froa1400 forflitc1420 amove?a1425 to carry out?a1425 surtrayc1440 surtretec1440 twistc1440 abstract1449 ostea1450 remove1459 ablatea1475 araisea1475 redd1479 dismove1480 diminish?1504 convey1530 alienate1534 retire1536 dimove1540 reversec1540 subtractc1540 submove1542 sublate1548 pare1549 to pull in1549 exempt1553 to shift off1567 retract?1570 renversec1586 aufer1587 to lay offa1593 rear1596 retrench1596 unhearse1596 exemea1600 remote1600 to set off1600 subduct1614 rob1627 extraneize1653 to bring off1656 to pull back1656 draft1742 extract1804 reef1901 the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > deduction > deduct [verb (transitive)] abatec1400 rebate1425 batec1440 minishc1483 diminish?1504 detract1509 detray1509 deduct1524 defalkc1540 defalcate1541 subtray1549 derogate1561 discount1561 deduce?1566 substract1592 to strike off1597 reduct1600 subtract1610 subduct1716 to knock off1811 dock1891 shave1961 minus1963 the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > deduction > deduct [verb (transitive)] > detract from takec1475 diminish?1504 derogate1556 to take off1639 to detract from1699 ?1504 M. Beaufort tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) iv. ix Take from our hertis..all that may..dimynyshe vs from thy eternall loue. ?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye ii. sig. h3^v Neyther adde any thinge nor diminish. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxvii The..loue betwene them, washed awaie and diminished all suspicion. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Sulpicius in Panoplie Epist. 24 Thus much was diminished from the state of the empyre. 1611 Bible (King James) Deut. iv. 2 Ye shall not adde vnto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish ought from it. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 64 Your swords..may as well Wound the loud windes..as diminish One dowle that's in my plumbe. View more context for this quotation a1627 J. Hayward Life & Raigne Edward Sixt (1630) 102 Nothing was deminished either from the safety or glory of the King by imprisonment of the Duke. †b. absol. To abate, subtract. Obsolete. Π 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vii. §6 That we should not add to nor diminish from Gods commands. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 159 Nothing..should be admitted to diminish from the real Majesty of the ceremony. 1826 R. H. Froude Remains (1838) I. 74 His command..will no more diminish from the sum of our pleasures than [etc.]. †5. To deprive (a person) in part, to curtail of. ΘΠ the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) benimc890 to do of ——eOE bedealc1000 disturbc1230 bereavec1275 reave?a1300 acquitc1300 benemec1300 deprivec1330 privea1382 subvertc1384 oppressc1395 abridgea1400 to bate of, from1399 lessa1400 nakena1400 dischargea1425 privatec1425 to bring outa1450 abatec1450 sever?1507 spulyie?1507 denude1513 disable1529 distrain1530 destituec1540 destitutec1540 defalk1541 to turn out of ——1545 discomfit1548 wipe1549 nude1551 disannul?a1556 bereft1557 diminish1559 benoom1563 joint1573 uncase1583 rid1585 disarm1590 visitc1592 ease1600 dispatch1604 unfurnisha1616 rig1629 retrench1640 unbecomea1641 disentail1641 cashier1690 twin1722 mulct1748 fordo1764 to do out of ——1796 to cut out1815 bate1823 deprivate1832 devoid1878 1559 Bp. Cox in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. vi. 98 If now then the builders..be diminished of their wages. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Psalms xxxiii. 11 They that seeke after our Lord shal not be diminished of any good. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 226 The whole circle seemed diminished of their former importance. 6. Architecture. To make (a thing) such that its successive parts in any direction are continuously less and less; to cause to taper or progressively decrease in size, as a tapering column: see diminution n. 9. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [verb (transitive)] > cause to taper diminish1624 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 22 They [pillars] are all diminished..from one third part of the whole Shaft. 1797 Monthly Mag. 3 221 The sides form the arch joints of the bridge, and are diminished, so as to tend towards the centre of the circle. 7. Music. †a. To reduce in loudness, make gradually softer: cf. diminuendo n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > volume > [verb (transitive)] > decrease in volume diminish1664 1664 J. Playford Brief Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 4) i. 64 It shall work a better effect to Tune the Voyce, diminishing of it, than Increasing of it. Categories » b. To lessen (an interval) by a semitone: see diminished adj. 4. II. intransitive. 8. a. To become less or smaller; to lessen, decrease. ΘΠ the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > become reduced in size or extent [verb (intransitive)] narrowOE waneOE smallOE slakec1380 welk1390 fade1398 lessenc1400 minish?a1425 decay1489 adminisha1500 diminish1520 to grow downwards?1523 ungrow1598 scant1607 settlea1642 to run off1765 dwarf1776 comminute1850 downsize1977 the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > decrease in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (intransitive)] littleOE setc1000 wanzec1175 lessc1225 allayc1275 wane1297 slaken1303 disincreasec1374 slakec1380 decrease1382 debatea1400 unwaxa1400 wastea1400 adminishc1400 lessenc1400 imminish14.. aslakec1405 minish?a1425 assuagec1430 shrinkc1449 to let down1486 decay1489 diminish1520 fall1523 rebate1540 batea1542 to come down1548 abate1560 stoop1572 pine1580 slack1580 scanten1585 shrivel1588 decrew1596 remit1629 contract1648 subside1680 lower1697 relax1701 drop1730 to take off1776 to run down1792 reduce1798 recede1810 to run off1816 to go down1823 attenuatea1834 ease1876 downscale1945 1520 Chron. Eng. ii. f. 11/2 Kyng Goffars people encreased dayly and his dyminished. 1565 Earl of Bedford in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 215 As their force dimenesshede so dyd her Grace increace. 1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. Aij What Judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey* III. xiv. 284 Crete's ample fields diminish to our eye. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ii. 16 The sound..diminishes in intensity. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 78 The air diminished in bulk, while the quicksilver increased in weight. b. Architecture. To have its dimensions successively smaller in the same direction; to taper. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [verb (intransitive)] > taper diminish1715 1715 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture I. xiii. 18 In the diminishing of them [sc. columns] it must be observ'd, that by how much longer they are, by so much the less they must diminish. 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