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单词 diminish
释义
diminish
verb[IorT]
uk
/dɪˈmɪn.ɪʃ/us
/dɪˈmɪn.ɪʃ/
C1
toreduceor bereducedinsizeorimportance:
减少，减小，降低
I don'twantto diminish herachievements, but she did have a lot ofhelp.我不想贬低她的成就，但她确实得到了很多帮助。
Thesememorieswill not be diminished bytime.这些记忆不会随着时间的流逝而淡漠。
What he did hasseriouslydiminished him in many people'seyes.他的所作所为严重损害了他在许多人眼里的形象。
We'veseenourhousediminishgreatly/sharply/substantiallyinvalueover the last sixmonths.在最近6个月里，我们这座房屋的价格暴跌。
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  • Later on inlifethesexdrivetendsto diminish.
  • Risingunemploymenthas diminished thebargainingpowerofpeoplewithjobs.
  • Theinaccuracyof themissilesgreatlydiminishestheireffectiveness.
  • Herpopularityas asingerhas diminished since theglorydaysof the 1980s.
  • Freshsnowmeantthatourchancesofreachingthesummitslowlydiminished.
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(Definition ofdiminishfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

diminish| American Dictionary

diminish
verb[I/T]
us
/dəˈmɪn·ɪʃ/
toreduceor bereducedinsizeorimportance:
[I]Thethreatofinflationis diminishing.
[T]A single-payersystemwould diminish thebureaucraticcostofhealthcare.

diminution

noun[C/U]us/ˌdɪm·əˈnu·ʃən/
(Definition ofdiminishfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

diminish| Business English

diminish
verb[IorT]
uk
/dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/us
toreduceor bereducedinsize,importance, orvalue:
Ifconsumersstartlosingconfidence, it will diminishdemandforhouseholdgoods.
Investors candiversifytheirholdingsinorderto diminishrisk.
Over aperiodof severalyears, these securitiesdiminished invalueand thecorporationwentbankrupt.
(Definition ofdiminishfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdiminish

diminish
Proliferation of granule cell precursors in the dentate gyrus of adult monkeys is diminished by stress.
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Aliasing errors are diminished by a controlled amount of artificial dissipation of 6th order at non-resolved wavenumbers.
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The overestimation diminishes with an increasing number of loci, but is still about 0.02 even when 100 loci are used.
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On the face of it, strife had been diminishing.
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Based on simulations, they observe that recombination together with synergistic or diminishing epistasis increases or decreases permissible mutation rates and genome sizes.
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First, the likelihood of subsequent non-attendance may be diminished.
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Certainly, over a long historical period it might be expected that unrecorded separations would have diminished as a proportion of all marriage breakdowns.
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Religion remained a significant determinant of intended family size but its effect had diminished.
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The effect of employment status seems to have diminished during the decade.
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Although collective work parties have diminished since the ' time of the elders ', they still take place frequently, particularly among certain categories of people.
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The rate of production of thyroxine is diminished.
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In theory, a free market would cope with this by raising prices to a point where demand diminished to match supply.
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However, the opposite trend, albeit diminished, was seen at the soma, where the unconfined distribution was more effective than the clustered distribution.
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The heightened baseline pain state reached a peak at 3 weeks post-injury, and diminished back to baseline by 1 year.
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Removal of the cotyledons strongly diminished enzymatic activity in the embryonic axis.
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