An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DIMINISH
decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
(verb) decrease in size, extent, or range; “The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester”; “The cabin pressure fell dramatically”; “her weight fell to under a hundred pounds”; “his voice fell to a whisper”
diminish, belittle
(verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; “don’t belittle your colleagues”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
diminish (third-person singular simple present diminishes, present participle diminishing, simple past and past participle diminished)
(transitive) To make smaller.
(intransitive) To become smaller.
(transitive) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).
(intransitive) To taper.
(intransitive) To disappear gradually.
(transitive) To take away; to subtract.
Antonyms
• improve, repair, renovate
Anagrams
• minidish
Source: Wiktionary
Di*min"ish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diminished; p. pr. & vb. n. Diminishing.] Etym: [Pref. di- (= L. dis-) + minish: cf. L. diminuere, F. diminuer, OE. diminuen. See Dis-, and Minish.]
1. To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase. Not diminish, but rather increase, the debt. Barrow.
2. To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken. This doth nothing diminish their opinion. Robynson (More's Utopia). I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. Ezek. xxix. 15. O thou . . . at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads. Milton.
3. (Mus.)
Definition: To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
– Diminished, or Diminishing, scale, a scale of gradation used in finding the different points for drawing the spiral curve of the volute. Gwilt.
– Diminishing rule (Arch.), a board cut with a concave edge, for fixing the entasis and curvature of a shaft.
– Diminishing stile (Arch.), a stile which is narrower in one part than in another, as in many glazed doors.
Syn.
– To decrease; lessen; abate; reduce; contract; curtail; impair; degrade. See Decrease.
Di*min"ish, v. i.
Definition: To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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