diminish saksaksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-saksa)

(transitive) To make smaller.
(intransitive) To become smaller.
To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
(intransitive) To taper.
(intransitive) To disappear gradually.
To take away; to subtract.
(transitive, music) To reduce a perfect or minor interval by a semitone.

The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[...]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
This doth nothing diminish their opinion.
I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
O thou [...] at whose sight all the stars / Hide their diminished heads.
Neither shall ye diminish aught from it.

Partisiipin perfekti	diminished	Partisiipin perfekti	diminisht (vanhahtava)
Imperfekti	diminished	Imperfekti	diminisht (vanhahtava)
Partisiipin preesens	diminishing	Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	diminishes

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