Antonyms for diminish
dɪˈmɪn ɪʃdi·min·ish

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1. diminish

   The storm, the fever, the pain abates. Interest declines. Misfortunes may be mitigated, desires moderated, intense anger abated, population decreased, taxes reduced. We abate a nuisance, terminate a controversy, suppress a rebellion. See ALLEVIATE.

   Antonyms:
   aggravate, amplify, continue, develop, enhance, enlarge, extend, foment, increase, magnify, rage, raise, revive

   Synonyms:
   abate, decline, decrease, ebb, lessen, lower, mitigate, moderate, reduce, subside

   Preposition:
   Abate in fury; abated by law.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.5 / 4 votes

1. diminish

   Antonyms:
   increase, enlarge, expand, extend, amplify, magnify

   Synonyms:
   lessen, reduce, contract, curtail, dwarf, decrease, subside, shorten, abate, retrench

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1. • Lessen

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 3 votes

1. decrease, diminish, lessen, fallverb

   decrease in size, extent, or range

   "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"

   Synonyms:
   shine, go down, accrue, strike, devolve, flow, precipitate, settle, lessen, come down, subside, pass, descend, come, fall, return, light, belittle, hang, decrease, minify, fall down

2. diminish, belittleverb

   lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of

   "don't belittle your colleagues"

   Synonyms:
   pick at, fall, belittle, denigrate, disparage, lessen, decrease, minimize, derogate

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. diminishverb

   Synonyms:
   decrease, reduce, abate, lessen, contract, curtail

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:2.5 / 4 votes

1. augment

   Submitted by rinat on October 3, 2019  

2. evolve

   cause to seem less impressive or valuable.

   the trial has aged and diminished him.

   Submitted by acronimous on October 18, 2015  

How to use diminish in a sentence?

1. Stanley Weiss:

   We expect that at some time it will help diminish the spread of COVID-19, based on the assumptions that persons who are infected and recover will have protective immunity, however, with SARS, data suggested protective immunity was of limited duration. Thus, the precise temporal dynamics may prove very important. For example, there could be recurrent waves. We hope with COVID-19, but do not yet know that they wont become re-infected.

2. Thomas Traherne:

   More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

3. President Barack Obama:

   You don’t diminish your office by taking a selfie. You do it by sending a poorly written letter to Iran.

4. The Biden adviser:

   We're in this next phase of the presidency and the midterms, we want no one to have complaints. But if that is the complaint, we will diminish that complaint, because that's exactly what President Joe Biden's going to be doing.

5. Jacqueline Choi:

   I had second thoughts about running it, as well as third and fourth and fifth thoughts, not only was I unsure whether my body would heal quickly enough from an unplanned C-section, butI was also worried that training and racing would diminish my already-meager milk supply. Fortunately, I was able to pump around the clock for a couple of months to trick my body into making more milk, and I actually had an amazing oversupply by the time I needed to race.

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