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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

... best is the least, and I get away from things as much as possible. To minimize life is to make the best ...

— A Pessimist - In Theory and Practice • Robert Timsol

... which it was feared would be Tom Robinson's last, Miss Franklin would no longer be denied her place among the watchers. She had been kept away in obedience to poor Tom's express orders, that in the attempt to minimize the fever no communication should be kept up on his account between the Corn Exchange where he lay and either his house or "Robinson's," notwithstanding the proofs that the disease did not spread by contagion ...

— A Houseful of Girls • Sarah Tytler

... the growing burden by an inward summons to contempt of the journalistic profession, but nothing would come. She tried to minimize it, and her brain succumbed. Her views of the deed last night and now throttled reason in two contending clutches. The enormity swelled its dimensions, taking shape, and pointing magnetically at her. She stood ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... lay bare the errors of Episcopacy and of Presbyterianism as well as to demonstrate the superior merits of the new aspirant for the status of a national church, the "Seven Articles" [16] aimed to minimize differences in church usage by omitting mention of them when possible and by emphasizing agreement. The evident advance along the line of a more authoritative eldership had developed out of the experience of the first two English churches in Amsterdam. John Robinson and his followers had held ...

— The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut • M. Louise Greene, Ph. D.

... not unknown following iridectomy, may follow the trephine operation, and already some fifteen or sixteen cases have been reported. But while this possibility is a real danger, which improved technique may greatly minimize (Col. Elliot has not seen a case of secondary infection in an experience of over 1200 trephining cases of his own and a large number of others performed by his assistants and pupils) the ultimate verdict must rest with results as compared with other measures. At ...

— Glaucoma - A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago - Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 • Various

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