Usually means: Reduce or lessen in size.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word diminish:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. diminish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. diminish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diminish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. diminish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. diminish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Diminish, diminish: Wordnik
  7. diminish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. diminish: Wiktionary
  9. diminish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. diminish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. diminish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Diminish, diminish: Dictionary.com
  13. diminish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. diminish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Diminish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. diminish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. diminish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. diminish: Free Dictionary
  19. diminish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. diminish: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. diminish: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. diminish: Rhymezone
  23. diminish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. diminish: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diminish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. diminish: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diminish: MATH SPOKEN HERE!

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make smaller.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become less or smaller.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To taper.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To disappear gradually.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To take away; to subtract.

Similar:
lessen, decrease, fall, belittle, smallen, deminish, diminutize, diminute, minimize, reduce, more...

Opposite:
increase, expand, enhance, grow, amplify

Types:
reduce, decrease, reduce in size, reduce in number, reduce in intensity, reduce in volume, more...

Phrases:
Diminish and Ascend, diminish slowly, diminish bit by bit, to diminish, diminish value, more...

Adjectives:
wise, least, latter, first, general, last, individual, wondrous, second, whole, physical

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     smoke,     taupe,     pale lavender


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Similar:
lessen, decrease, fall, belittle, smallen, deminish, diminutize, diminute, minimize, reduce, more...

Opposite:
increase, expand, enhance, grow, amplify

Types:
reduce, decrease, reduce in size, reduce in number, reduce in intensity, reduce in volume, more...

Phrases:
Diminish and Ascend, diminish slowly, diminish bit by bit, to diminish, diminish value, gradually diminish, opposite of diminish, diminish in, cause to diminish, diminish into, more...

Adjectives:
wise, least, latter, first, general, last, individual, wondrous, second, whole, physical

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     smoke,     taupe,     pale lavender



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