diminishing
present participle ofdiminish
| 单词 | diminishing |
| 释义 | diminishing present 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
Examplesofdiminishingdiminishing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. This is because longitudinal evaluations of behavioral functioning that are indexed to age-matched norms provide profiles of emerging anddiminishingsymptoms over time. From theCambridge English Corpus On the face of it, strife had beendiminishing. From theCambridge English Corpus Based on simulations, they observe that recombination together with synergistic ordiminishingepistasis increases or decreases permissible mutation rates and genome sizes. From theCambridge English Corpus On the near side the skirt has a great effect in increasing ordiminishingthe apparent size and form of the rider. From theCambridge English Corpus The insolubility of dyes on "fast" attachment to fiber was compared withdiminishingsolubility as double salts were formed. From theCambridge English Corpus The outward current has a constant or slightlydiminishingamplitude as the oocyte matures. From theCambridge English Corpus It could label the freelancer as out-of-touch and ' backward ', and lead todiminishingwork. From theCambridge English Corpus Even if courts continued to sit, they did so withdiminishingeffectiveness. From theCambridge English Corpus What is revealed though by the curves is that values above these figures have adiminishinglimited effect on the probability that therapy is cost-effective. From theCambridge English Corpus For example, there may be adiminishingmarginal utility for injured parties that ought not be factored into the compensation that is owed. From theCambridge English Corpus The second: architecture'sdiminishingimportance relative to reality. From theCambridge English Corpus We restrict all factors devoted to the accumulation of human capital in order to exhibitdiminishingreturns. From theCambridge English Corpus The descriptive claim is that individual preferences themselves are convex; that they exhibit generalizeddiminishingmarginal utility. From theCambridge English Corpus The income and religiosity variables are logged because we expect their effects to displaydiminishingreturns at their highest values. From theCambridge English Corpus The research to date suggests that this alarmist view of drasticallydiminishingwelfare programmes or rising populist expectations needs to be substantially revised. 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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