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/mˈɪnəmˌaɪz/ Listen

verb

minimize v. t. (past & past part. minimized; pres. part. minimizing)

To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum.

To represent, to oneself or others, as of no importance or minimal importance or effect; to belittle or disarage.

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Etymology of 'Minimize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Minimize" Quotes from Famous Books

... "open-mindedness"; on that concession—if it had been a concession—to the methods of science. There had been in truth a course of lectures on this subject; but he saw now, very clearly, what a concerted effort had been put forward in the rest of the teaching to minimize and discredit it. Even the professor who gave the lectures had had the air of deploring them. Here it is, but on the whole one would better let it alone,—such was the inference. And he had let it ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... (D) To minimize any disruptive impact on the structure of the industries involved and on generally prevailing ...

— Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, Circular 92 • Library of Congress. Copyright Office.

... spirit gum, emphasized by a warm, perspiring skin. That inevitably suggested one thing. I looked for further evidence of making-up and found it—these preparations all smell. The hair you described was characteristically that of a wig—worn long to hide the joining and made wavy to minimize the length. All these things are trifles. As yet we have not gone beyond the initial stage of suspicion. I will tell you another trifle. When this man retired to a compartment with his deed-box, he never even opened it. Possibly it contains a brick and a newspaper. ...

— Four Max Carrados Detective Stories • Ernest Bramah

... said to minimize his merits when he says "He was at the time a slaveholder—often expressing himself with various degrees of force against slavery, and promising his suffrage for its abolition, he did not see this wrong as he saw it at the close of life." (Sumner's ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various

... that Ronald shirked his filial obligations, but rather because of his heavy sense of them, that Mr. Grew so persistently sought to minimize and lighten them. It was he who insisted, to Ronald, on the immense difficulty of getting from New ...

— Tales Of Men And Ghosts • Edith Wharton

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