Diminish Verb 1 2 3, Past and Past Participle Form Tense of Diminish V1 V2 V3
diminish
Meanings;
- Make or become less.(verb)
| Verb(V1) | Past Tense(V2) | Past Participle(V3) |
| diminish | diminished | diminished |
| Verb – es(Ves) | Verb – ing(Ving) |
| diminishes | diminishing |
Synonyms
decrease, decline, reduce, lessen, shrink, contract, grow smaller, fall off, drop off, slacken off,
Example Sentences with diminish
- I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.
- The population of this country is diminishing.
- Personal liberty is diminishing nowadays.
- Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
- The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
- The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation.
- Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.
- Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
- When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
- Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
- My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.
