diminished
past simple and past participle ofdiminish
| 单词 | diminished |
| 释义 | diminished past simple and past participle ofdiminish diminish verb[IorT] uk/dɪˈmɪn.ɪʃ/us/dɪˈmɪn.ɪʃ/C1 toreduceor bereducedinsizeorimportance: I don'twantto diminish herachievements, but she did have a lot ofhelp. Thesememorieswill not be diminished bytime. What he did hasseriouslydiminished him in many people'seyes. We'veseenourhousediminishgreatly/sharply/substantiallyinvalueover the last sixmonths.
Becoming and making smaller or less
Examplesofdiminisheddiminished In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Laboratory models, however, are necessarilydiminishedrepresentations of everyday-life processes. From theCambridge English Corpus Proliferation of granule cell precursors in the dentate gyrus of adult monkeys isdiminishedby stress. From theCambridge English Corpus Aliasing errors arediminishedby a controlled amount of artificial dissipation of 6th order at non-resolved wavenumbers. From theCambridge English Corpus First, the likelihood of subsequent non-attendance may bediminished. From theCambridge English Corpus Certainly, over a long historical period it might be expected that unrecorded separations would havediminishedas a proportion of all marriage breakdowns. From theCambridge English Corpus Religion remained a significant determinant of intended family size but its effect haddiminished. From theCambridge English Corpus The effect of employment status seems to havediminishedduring the decade. From theCambridge English Corpus Although collective work parties havediminishedsince the ' time of the elders ', they still take place frequently, particularly among certain categories of people. From theCambridge English Corpus The rate of production of thyroxine isdiminished. From theCambridge English Corpus The heightened baseline pain state reached a peak at 3 weeks post-injury, anddiminishedback to baseline by 1 year. From theCambridge English Corpus Removal of the cotyledons stronglydiminishedenzymatic activity in the embryonic axis. From theCambridge English Corpus The cytokinin or ethylene requirements for overcoming thermoinhibition of lettuce germination can also be eliminated ordiminishedby removing or weakening the endosperm. From theCambridge English Corpus This way, positive psychological factors are enhanced while negative ones arediminished. From theCambridge English Corpus Regarding the follow-up bid, it appeared that the distribution of (yes, yes) responsesdiminishedwith bid size. From theCambridge English Corpus After 3 days, the c-wave wasdiminishedsubstantially to approximately 50% of the preinjection baseline. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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