minimize
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
We have to minimize the budget.
Try to minimize your biases.
Đồng nghĩa: besmall, smallify, abase, abate, belittle, besmall, bring down, embase, cut, decrease, decrement, diminish, foreshorten, lessen, lilliputianize, lower, mince, minimize, reduce, shrink, smallify
- 2.
(transitive)To relegate or assign (something) to a less insignificant status; diminish.
The insurance adjuster tried to minimize the extent of the damage to lessen the company's exposure to liability.
Đồng nghĩa: lessen, lower, reduce, abase, abate, belittle, besmall, bring down, embase, cut, decrease, decrement, diminish, foreshorten, lessen, lilliputianize, lower, mince, minimize, reduce, shrink, smallify
- 3.
(transitive)(computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.
- 4.
(transitive)To treat (someone) in a slighting manner.
- 5.
(transitive)To treat as trivial or insignificant; to trivialize.
to minimize someone's feelings
Đồng nghĩa: banalize, disparage, play down, 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
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From minimus + -ize.