Minimize: alternatives and connections

To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.

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To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as…

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To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.

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Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, ran…

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To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.

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A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrub…

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The act or process of minimizing.

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The act or process of minimizing.

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To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.

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To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.

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To annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; -- said of a law.

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To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.

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To increase to the highest degree.

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To increase to the highest degree.

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