Diminish - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 11/01/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Diminish.

5 letter answer(s) to diminish

ABATE

become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours"
make less active or intense

TAPER

a convex shape that narrows toward a point
a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
diminish gradually; "Interested tapered off"
give a point to; "The candles are tapered"
Grow gradually narrower.
stick of wax with a wick in the middle
the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)

4 letter answer(s) to diminish

BATE

flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons
moderate or restrain; lessen the force of; "He bated his breath when talking about this affair"; "capable of bating his enthusiasm"
soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins"

WANE

a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
become smaller; "Interest in his novels waned"
decrease in phase; "the moon is waning"
grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"

8 letter answer(s) to diminish

DECREASE

a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
a process of becoming smaller or shorter
decrease in size, extent, or range;
Diminish
make smaller; "
the act of decreasing or reducing something
the amount by which something decreases
to get smaller

MINIMISE

make small or insignificant; "Let's minimize the risk"
represent as less significant or important

POOHPOOH

7 letter answer(s) to diminish

DETRACT

take away a part from; diminish; "His bad manners detract from his good character"

DWINDLE

become smaller or lose substance; "Her savings dwindled down"
peter out

SUBSIDE

descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair"
sink down or precipitate; "the mud subsides when the waters become calm"
sink to a lower level or form a depression; "the valleys subside"
wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"

3 letter answer(s) to diminish

EBB

a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
fall away or decline; "The patient's strength ebbed away"
flow back or recede; "the tides ebbed at noon"
hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
the outward flow of the tide

6 letter answer(s) to diminish

LESSEN

decrease in size, extent, or range;
make smaller; "
wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"

REDUCE

be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
be the essential element; "The proposal boils down to a compromise"
bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"
lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon"
lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation; "She reduced her niece to a servant"
make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"
make smaller; "reduce an image"
narrow or limit; "reduce the influx of foreigners"

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Diminish'

"Cabaret" lyricist
"Chicago" lyricist
"Make a reduction in class", we’re told
(Of tide) go out
(Of tide) recede
... at first expected Biden to welcome British decline
A drop in the ocean?
A temptation said to diminish
A temptation, by the sound of it, to diminish
Abate
Adult temptation said to subside
As you say, an inducement, moderate
Bastard born following English decline
Be on the way out
Be upset – boat's beginning to sink
Beauties oddly decrease
Become less
Become less bright, as th
Become less intense
Become narrow
Become narrower
Become smaller
Belittle; shrink
Bring down
Bring to a point
Candle
Candle that a person gets hold of
Case of regressive fascist is for shrink
Cave in reserve with sunfish
Come to a point
Come to the point?
Contract
Contract daughter to replace son in scam
Contract makes cheat switch son for daughter
Contract, as written in order
Cunning switching of axes
Cut
Cut back on iron?
Dead calm - missing ship to become insignificant
Decay
Decline
Decline date with discovered cheat
Decline eastern bishop twice
Decline in large European city
Decline terms of free boob job
Decline to turn left into empty drive
Decrease
Decrease gradually
Decrease, as the moon
Die away
Die down
Die down? Some wretched wind lessens
Diminish - shrink slowly
Diminish gradually
Diminish in intensity
Dismiss
Disparage
Draw to a close
Drop
Drop awful crude joke, finally
Drop class by the sound of it
Drop from reserve XI?
Drop off
Drop off cricketer in A&E
Dwindle
Ease
Ease off
Ease up
Ebb
English bishops decline
English books fall back
Fade
Fall (off)
Fall back
Fall off
Finally lose black bishop, fall away
Finally wave bye bye and go out
Finally wave bye-bye and go out
Flag
Flood stage
Flow back
Flow back, as the tide
Flow's partner
Get less death around a river
Get less iron
Get less time on copier
Get smaller and lighter
Get smaller recorder
Get to the point?
Go back
Go down
Go downhill
Go out
Go out live: revolutionary start for broadcast
Gradual decline
Gradually become smaller
Gradually diminish

Grow dim
Grow less - waste away
Grow narrower
I’d come finally after membership fees go down
In reference to a rugby player - round and very strong
Iron sink
Lessen
Let up
Light exercises taken in by sailor
Light, light touch provided with hesitation
Lose intensity
Lose power
Make less
Make light of
Make smaller
Make smaller or fewer
Mitigate rebuke, say?
Moderate
Moderate degree partner regularly conceals
Narrow
Narrow down
Narrow to a point
New player joining team in collapse
Nothing phony - state dismissed repeated raving in scorn
On VHS he recorded a spill
One who records spill
Opposite of swell
Order to conceal a second reduction
Outward flow
Part of a Christmas decor
Period of decline
Peter out
Peter out in gusty weather getting led astray outside
Peter out of the second team?
Peter out to relax after month with runs
Play down
Point of decline
Prate
Press reduction
Put an end to sailor getting worried
Put darts into, as a garm
Recede
Recede, revealing some pebbles
Reduce
Reduce amount of religious material being broadcast
Reduction
Reflux
Repeatedly bear ridicule
Restrain
Retreat observed in the BBC
Retrocede
Rings round? Rubbish!
Rooney's caught Peter out
Sailor tackles exercise to get lighter
Second eleven go down?
Second eleven perhaps cave in
See 6 Across
Shrink
Shrink fleece when daughter takes son's place
Shrink is probing antagonist of 1 down
Sink
Sink to a lower level
Slacken
Slender candle
Slim regularly, or need quiche
Slim, stop crushing Rex!
Spill drop of Ribena on cassette
Spill valve discovered in this place
Spy, at times
Subside
Tail off
Take away
Take away (from)
Taper off
Thanks for each firelighter
Thin candle
Thin out - spill
Tidal movement
To belittle a musical note is ultimately futile
Trim
Truncate
Vampire for one beginning to explode in rage
Vampire's one beginning to excite rage
VCR
Wane
Wash out to sea
Wax cylinder recorder
Wax's opposite
Waxed spill
Weaken
Weaken a magnet when picked up
What fat a person carries to get thinner gradually
What moons do after full
Wind down
Withdraw
Withdraw European books
Woodwind lessons somewhat in decline

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