Crossword-Solution: DIMINISH 8 letters, 121 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Diminish v. t. To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or
amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
Diminish v. t. To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to
degrade; to abase; to weaken.
Diminish v. t. To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval)
less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
Diminish v. t. To take away; to subtract.
Diminish v. i. To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as,
the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.

We have 121 clues for the answer “DIMINISH”

Clue Answers
DEDUCT part of price 1 answer
lessen or reduce 1 answer
lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of 1 answer
make or become smaller, fewer, or less 2 answers
DESCEND freely 4 answers
DESCEND to lower level 4 answers
DETACH and drop off 4 answers
DISCHARGE itself into (of river etc.) 4 answers
Reduce in size 5 answers
Make less. 6 answers
derogate 7 answers
drain away 8 answers
COMPLICATE (ant.) 8 answers
GROW (ant.) 9 answers
Trim down 9 answers
scale down 9 answers
Downsize 11 answers
FLOURISH (ant.) 12 answers
CUT back on 12 answers
Demote 14 answers
Whittle 14 answers
rationalise 14 answers
subtract 15 answers
minimise 16 answers
BECOME smaller 16 answers
slim down 16 answers
fritter 17 answers
detract 19 answers
Pare 20 answers
Taper 21 answers
disaffect 22 answers
extenuate 22 answers
attenuate 23 answers
Melt. 24 answers
Decimate 25 answers
Underestimate 25 answers
Cheapen 26 answers
deduct 26 answers
Take away 26 answers
dispraise 26 answers
Drop off 27 answers
Liquefy 28 answers
etiolate 30 answers
DENATURALISE 30 answers
desensitise 30 answers
make pale 31 answers
grow pale 32 answers
Subside 33 answers
bate 34 answers
Dunk 35 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DIMINISH (5)

Who can impair thee, mighty King, or bound Thy Empire? easily the proud attempt Of Spirits apostat and thir Counsels vaine Thou hast repeld, while impiously they thought Thee to diminish, and from thee withdraw The number of thy worshippers.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Awn and his supporters feared Ta'if would diminish Christian power in Lebanon and increase the influence of Syria.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
After midnight the voice of a clock seems to lose in breadth as much as in length, and to diminish its sonorousness to a thin falsetto.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Fresh as she is at it all, I’ve occasionally fancied that, if she knew how, she would like to—diminish.” He moved his left hand out into the air as if he were suggesting a _diminuendo_ to an orchestra.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
The Jew sat with his mouth agape, and his eyes fixed on the savage baron with such earnestness of terror, that his frame seemed literally to shrink together, and to diminish in size while encountering the fierce Norman’s fixed and baleful gaze.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993

Quotes with DIMINISH (3)

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.
Joss Whedon
Throwing dirt at a diamond does not diminish its value.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.
Jeremy Bentham
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1996–2012).