verbWord forms: -ties, -tying or -tied(transitive)
1.
to lessen in quantity
2. prosody
to deprive of metrical quantity
disquantity in American English
(dɪsˈkwɑntɪti)
transitive verbWord forms: -tied, -tying
obsolete
to diminish in quantity; make less
Word origin
[1595–1605; dis- + quantity]This word is first recorded in the period 1595–1605. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: domain, posture, toss, vernacular, zero