Synonyms for Diminishes:
v.
•blunts (verb)softens, desensitizes, blunts, deadens, dulls.
•cheapens (verb)
debases, marks down, devalues, slashes, degrades, belittles, devaluates, cheapens.
•curtails (verb)
fragments, reduces, minimizes, discontinues.
•decreases (verb)
abridges, deflates, decrements, abates, shrinks, dies down, depletes, compresses, recedes, deducts, dwindles, shortens, contracts, lessens, concentrates, truncates, subsides, lowers, curtails, abbreviates, decreases, compacts, drains, erodes.
•detracts (verb)
discounts, decries, detracts, disparages, depreciates, defames, abrades, maligns, casts aspersion, derogates.
•diminishes (verb)
Clips, weeds, tapers, bobs, nips, lightens, trims, shears, pares, crops, Culls, shaves, downgrades, condenses, prunes.
•discounts (verb)
undersells.
•lessens (verb)
subordinates.
•subtracts (verb)
cuts, elides, subtracts, deletes, docks.
Usage examples for diminishes
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We know that the agitation of the waves, even during storms, diminishes at a rapid rate, so as to become very insignificant at the depth of a few fathoms, and is quite imperceptible at the depth of about sixteen fathoms; but when large bodies of water are transferred by a current from one part of the ocean to another, they are known to maintain at great depths such a velocity as must enable them to remove the finer, and sometimes even the coarser, materials of the rocks over which they flow. – The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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This clause neither augments nor diminishes the expressly designated powers. – Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
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33. " The Superlative increases or diminishes the Signification of the Positive or Adjective, to a very high or a very low Degree." – The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown