Thesaurus:diminish
English
Verb
Sense: to make smaller
Synonyms
- abase (archaic)
- abate
- belittle
- besmall (rare)
- bring down
- embase (obsolete)
- cut [⇒ thesaurus]
- decrease [⇒ thesaurus]
- decrement [⇒ thesaurus]
- diminish
- foreshorten
- lessen
- lilliputianize
- lower
- mince
- minimize
- reduce
- shrink
- smallify
Antonyms
See also
- Thesaurus:decrease (intransitive, to become smaller)
Further reading
- “36. nonincrease, decrease” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “diminish” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.