belittle
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verb- 1.
(ambitransitive)To knowingly say that (someone or something) is smaller or less important than it actually is, especially as a way of showing contempt or deprecation.
Don't belittle your colleagues.
Đồng nghĩa: understate, make light of, denigrate, degrade, deprecate, disparage, downplay, play down, trivialize, bagatellize, abase, bagatellize, banalize, belittle, cut down, de-emphasize, denigrate, degrade, deprecate, derogate, disparage, dispraise, downplay, lilliputianize, make little of, make nothing of, minimize, play down, set at nought, superficialize, trivialize, underestimate, underplay, understate, vilipend
- 2.
(transitive)To make small.
Đồng nghĩa: abase, besmall, smallify, abase, abate, belittle, besmall, bring down, embase, cut, decrease, decrement, diminish, foreshorten, lessen, lilliputianize, lower, mince, minimize, reduce, shrink, smallify
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From be- + little. Thomas Jefferson, 1782.