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/mˈɪnəmˌaɪz/ Listen

verb

minimize v. t. (past & past part. minimized; pres. part. minimizing)

To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum.

To represent, to oneself or others, as of no importance or minimal importance or effect; to belittle or disarage.

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Etymology of 'Minimize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Minimize" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the present, according to my experience," objected Kapitan Schwalbe gloomily. "These Englishmen simply won't be frightened. But to return once more to the point: what steps do you propose to take to minimize my risk?" ...

— The Submarine Hunters - A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War • Percy F. Westerman

... of the various documents shows remarkable discrepancies between the earlier and later versions. Writing to her son Samuel, when the ghost was still active, and she would not be likely to minimize its doings, Mrs. Wesley thus ...

— Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters • H. Addington Bruce

... to begin at once a systematic campaign of extinction. It had been his intention before sailing to dispose of many household articles, either by sale or gift. As he did not expect to return to New York before the latter part of August, this would minimize the struggles of the last month. But the prospective "profit" to be acquired from keeping his apartment open was not to be overlooked. He could easily count upon a generous sum for salaries and running expenses. Once on the other side of the Atlantic, he hoped that new opportunities for ...

— Brewster's Millions • George Barr McCutcheon

... of trying to minimize the effect of profit charging to diminish consumption, they deliberately sought to magnify it ...

— Equality • Edward Bellamy

... painful, sinful, hopeless, and miserable; while the realm of reality is to be aspired for, as it is eternal, perfect, comfortable, full of hope, joy, and peace-hence the eternal divorce of appearance and reality. Such a view of life tends to make one minimize the value of man, to neglect the present existence, and ...

— The Religion of the Samurai • Kaiten Nukariya

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