All diminish synonyms

verb diminish

• belittle — If you belittle someone or something, you say or imply that they are unimportant or not very good.
• minimize — to reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
• slacken — If something slackens or if you slacken it, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
• ebb — the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
• wane — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
• dwindle — to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away.
• lessen — to become less.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• recede — to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
• temper — a particular state of mind or feelings.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• abate — If something bad or undesirable abates, it becomes much less strong or severe.
• subside — to sink to a low or lower level.
• curtail — If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
• shrink — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
• weaken — to make weak or weaker.
• minify — to make less.
• derogate — to cause to seem inferior or be in disrepute; detract
• cheapen — If something cheapens a person or thing, it lowers their reputation or position.
• devalue — To devalue something means to cause it to be thought less impressive or less deserving of respect.
• decry — If someone decries an idea or action, they criticize it strongly.
• abuse — Abuse of someone is cruel and violent treatment of them.
• demean — If you demean yourself, you do something which makes people have less respect for you.
• pan — an international distress signal used by shore stations to inform a ship, aircraft, etc., of something vital to its safety or to the safety of one of its passengers.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• abbreviate — If you abbreviate something, especially a word or a piece of writing, you make it shorter.
• taper — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
• retrench — to cut down, reduce, or diminish; curtail (expenses).
• attenuate — To attenuate something means to reduce it or weaken it.
• contract — A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
• drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
• close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
• moderate — kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price.
• shrivel — shrink, dry up
• depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
• peter out — to diminish gradually and stop; dwindle to nothing: The hot water always peters out in the middle of my shower.
• die out — If something dies out, it becomes less and less common and eventually disappears completely.
• fade away — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
• bad-mouth — If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself.
• put away — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
• put down — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
• run down — melted or liquefied: run butter.
• tear down — to pull apart or in pieces by force, especially so as to leave ragged or irregular edges. Synonyms: rend, rip, rive. Antonyms: mend, repair, sew.
• dispraise — to speak of as undeserving or unworthy; censure; disparage.
• dump on — to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
• fade — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
• fade out — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
• minimise — to reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree.