0 present participle of diminish
1 to reduce or be reduced in size or importance:
Rising unemployment has diminished the bargaining power of people with jobs.
The inaccuracy of the missiles greatly diminishes their effectiveness.
Her popularity as a singer has diminished since the glory days of the 1980s.
Fresh snow meant that our chances of reaching the summit slowly diminished.
This is because longitudinal evaluations of behavioral functioning that are indexed to age-matched norms provide profiles of emerging and diminishing symptoms over time.
On the face of it, strife had been diminishing.
Based on simulations, they observe that recombination together with synergistic or diminishing epistasis increases or decreases permissible mutation rates and genome sizes.
