单词	belittle
释义	belittlebe‧lit‧tle /bɪˈlɪtl/ verb [transitive] Verb Table VERB TABLE belittle Simple Form Present I, you, we, they belittle he, she, it belittles Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they belittled Present perfect I, you, we, they have belittled he, she, it has belittled Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had belittled Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will belittle Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have belittled Continuous Form Present I am belittling he, she, it is belittling you, we, they are belittling Past I, he, she, it was belittling you, we, they were belittling Present perfect I, you, we, they have been belittling he, she, it has been belittling Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been belittling Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be belittling Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been belittling Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Does your boss constantly belittle your contribution to the department? Good teachers never belittle their students. She has a way of speaking to employees that belittles them. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But this is not meant to belittle the magnitude of the adaptive radiations that took place in the Vendian and Cambrian periods. City College boosters made a point of belittling the influence of Jeffries' personal claque. The diva badgers and belittles her Juilliard students, all in the name of perfection. This is not to belittle deliberate training, for without wood there can be no flame. This is not to belittle the importance of his role. When I was a teen-ager, a group of friends and I made a nasty little sport out of belittling one another. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto make something seem less important than it really is► trivialize also trivialise British to write or talk about something in a way that makes it seem less serious or important than it really is: · The newspaper's headlines trivialized the war, making it seem like a game.· Judges feared that showing the trial on television would trivialize the legal process. ► play down/downplay to pretend that a problem, illness etc is less important or serious than it really is: · He accused drug companies of downplaying the risks of the new drug.· She downplayed any suggestion that there had been a leak in the chemical factory.play down something: · The government is trying to play down the seriousness of the unemployment figures.play something down: · The plan will cause a lot of changes, but officials are trying to play it down. ► belittle to say or do something that makes someone's efforts or achievements seem unimportant or useless: · Good teachers never belittle their students.· Does your boss constantly belittle your contribution to the department? ► understate to describe the size, value, or importance of something in a way that makes it seem less than it really is: · I think you are understating the importance to young people of a stable home life.· In the report, the incidence of violent crime is consistently understated. ► underestimate to wrongly think that something is less important than it really is: · People often underestimate the importance of human relationships in successful companies.· Never underestimate the value of really good training. formal to make someone or something seem small or unimportant:  He tends to belittle her efforts.
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