0 present participle of belittle --
1 to make a person or an action seem as if he, she or it is not important: --
Let us not hear any talk about prejudice or any belittling of our motives in initiating the debate tonight.
I am not belittling the importance of physical exercises later on.
We have had the same belittling of a social evil which is going on and flourishing under the eyes of every one of us.
I am not in any way belittling the great steps which have been taken.
I am not belittling the work of the women police at all, but the fact remains that they can do no work without male protection.
It really is no use belittling these difficulties, because they are immense.
In belittling that, you are dealing with a question of human life, and not with a question of the life of dogs.
We are in danger of belittling what they are doing and saying if we carry on pretending that everything is bad.
