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[ verb ] make small or insignificant
Synonyms Examples "Let's minimize the risk" Used in print (James A. Ibers et al., "Proton magnetic resonance...)The spectrometer was adjusted to minimize the amount of dispersion mode mixed_in with the absorption signal . (Francis J. Johnston and John E. Willard, "The...)The photochemical_reaction cells consisted_of 10 mm. i.d. Pyrex tubing , 5.5 cm. long , diffraction effects being minimized by the fact that the light passed_through only liquid glass interfaces and not gas glass interfaces . (Douglas Ashford, "Elections in Morocco: Progress...)To minimize the chances of repeating the Balafrej debacle the Ibrahim government was formed a titre personnel and a special office was created in the Ministry_of_the_Interior to plan and to conduct the elections . The choice of the single member district was dictated to a certain extent by problems of communication and understanding in the more remote areas of the country , but it also served to minimize the national political value of the elections . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)In the Analytical phase of their Cubism , Braque and Picasso had not_only had to minimize three-dimensionality simply in_order to preserve it ; they had also had to generalize it - to the point , finally , where the illusion of depth and relief became abstracted from specific three-dimensional entities and was rendered largely as the illusion of depth and relief as_such : as a disembodied attribute and expropriated property detached from everything not itself . Related terms |
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[ verb ] represent as less significant or important
Synonyms Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)Those modern scholars who urge that we must keep in mind the fundamental continuity of Aegean development from earliest times - granted occasional irruptions of peoples and ideas from outside - are correct ; but all_too many observers have been misled by this fact into minimizing the degree of change which took_place in the early first millennium . Related terms overstate inform trivialize minimum understatement minimization |
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[ verb ] belittle
Examples "Don't belittle his influence" Related terms |
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