diminish
音标：
英音/ dɪˈmɪnɪʃ / 美音/ dɪˈmɪnɪʃ /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
A murder charge was dropped after prosecutors reviewed psychiatric reports and accepted a plea to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility due to severe post-natal depression.
检察官审查了精神病报告并接受了由于严重的产后抑郁症而责任减少的理由，谋杀罪被撤销。
—BBC
Families are not spending enough because they don’t feel financially safe – the property crisis has diminished the value of their number one asset: their home.
家庭的支出不足，因为他们不认为财务安全 – 财产危机削弱了其第一资产的价值：他们的房屋。
—BBC
Fleet pleaded guilty to manslaughter due to diminished responsibility and was detained indefinitely at a secure psychiatric unit.
舰队由于责任减少而对过失杀人罪认罪，并在安全的精神科部门无限期地拘留。
—BBC
基本释意：
verb
decrease in size, extent, or range
减弱，降低，减少；贬低，轻视
同义词：
没有找到同义词
短释义：
It can also mean become less important. Once the light has been dimmed, its role in lighting the room is diminished. If you look at diminish, you see ‘minis’ which comes from the Latin word minus, as in subtraction. Other words that share this root are miniature and minuscule, all of which mean something that is small, or at least smallish.
减少意味着使较小或更小。如果您用深色灯罩覆盖灯泡，灯的光将减少。
长释义：
It can also mean become less important. Once the light has been dimmed, its role in lighting the room is diminished. If you look at diminish, you see ‘minis’ which comes from the Latin word minus, as in subtraction. Other words that share this root are miniature and minuscule, all of which mean something that is small, or at least smallish.
这也可能意味着变得不那么重要。一旦光线变暗，其在照明房间中的作用就会减小。如果您看一下减少，则会看到来自拉丁单词sionus的“ minis”，如减法。共享该根源的其他单词是微型和微小的，所有这些都意味着很小或至少很小的东西。
文学例句：
But of course he was right, and by the time I came to womanhood even I had to acknowledge that his prestige was much diminished.
但是，当然他是对的，到我来到女性时的时候，即使我不得不承认他的声望已经大大降低。
—Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
“All aboooooard,” he said, climbing back into the car as the caboose flashed by and the thunder of the train diminished gradually into the darkness.
“所有的事，”他说，随着车队闪烁，火车的雷声逐渐减少到黑暗中，他爬上了汽车。
—The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
“He is showing us that the crowning ceremony angered him, and that his power is not diminished by it. We will see what else he plans to do.”
“他向我们展示了加冕仪式激怒了他，他的力量并没有削弱。我们将看到他计划做什么。”
—Blood on the River by Elisa Carbone
词源：
diminish(v.)early 15c., diminishen, “to lessen, make or seem to make smaller,” from merger of two obsolete verbs, diminue and minish.
Diminue (late 14c.) is from Old French diminuer “make small,” from Latin diminuere “break into small pieces,” variant of deminuere “lessen, diminish,” from de- “completely” (see de-) + minuere “make small” (from PIE root *mei- (2) “small”). Minish (mid-14c.) is from Old French menuisier, from Latin minuere.
The meaning “to lower in power, importance, or estimation” is from mid-15c. The intransitive sense of “to grow less, become or appear smaller” is from 1510s. Related: Diminishes; diminishing. Wycliffe (late 14c.) uses tominish for Latin comminuet. A native Middle English verb formation in the sense of “diminish” was unmuchelen “un-much-le”).also from early 15c.
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
从两个过时的动词合并，减少和微不足道的合并，减少（v。）15c。减少（14c后期）来自旧的法语减小器“使小”，来自拉丁语diminuere“分成小块，“ deminuere”的变体“减少，减少”，从“完全”（请参阅de-） + minuere + minuere“ make small”（来自pie root *mei-loot *mei-loot *mei-（2）“ small”）。 Minish（14c。）来自拉丁语Minuere的旧法语菜单。 “对降低功率，重要性或估计的含义”是15c中期。不及物的“成长，变得更小或看起来更小”的意义来自1510年代。相关：减少；减少。 Wycliffe（14c后期）使用Tominish进行拉丁千美元。从“减少”的意义上讲，一个本地的英语动词形成是Unmuchelen“ Un-Much-Le”）。也是从15c初开始的。
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