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Minimize   /mˈɪnəmˌaɪz/   Listen
Minimize

verb
(past & past part. minimized; pres. part. minimizing)
1.
Make small or insignificant.  Synonym: minimise.  Antonyms: maximise, maximize.
2.
Represent as less significant or important.  Synonyms: downplay, minimise, understate.  Antonym: overstate.
3.
Cause to seem less serious; play down.  Synonyms: belittle, denigrate, derogate.






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... to his breast, and stepped toward the landing-place. Cappadox had taken the boat out from the moorings to minimize a chance of discovery by some one in the house. Drusus was just turning for a last embrace, when many voices and the plash of oars sounded below. Cornelia staggered ...
— A Friend of Caesar - A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. • William Stearns Davis

... points to a very close connection between what might be called the mechanism of prayer and of suggestion. To say this, is in no way to minimize the transcendental character of prayer. In both states there is a spontaneous or deliberate throwing open of the deeper mind to influences which, fully accepted, tend to realize themselves. Look at the directions ...
— The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day • Evelyn Underhill

... movements of wastes subject to the Convention to a minimum consistent with the environmentally sound and efficient management of such wastes; to minimize the amount and toxicity of wastes generated and ensure their environmentally sound management as closely as possible to the source of generation; and to assist LDCs in environmentally sound management of the hazardous and other wastes ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... may, if we are cautious, be able to save her life, and later, possibly, avenge her wrong. Let us act coolly, and after some manner of plan, so that we may work together, and not throw our lives away uselessly. The chance is that neither of us will come out of that village alive, but we must minimize that chance to the utmost if we are ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... the work with the teachings of modern medicine is not only to expect of the writer a miraculous prescience, but to minimize the advances of medical science within the last ...
— Gilbertus Anglicus - Medicine of the Thirteenth Century • Henry Ebenezer Handerson


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