to minimize
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4.8
- verb
- /ˈmɪnɪˌmaɪz/
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- But if you must, you have to minimize distractions in your room.
- minimize the importance
- minimize the role
- ignore or minimize
To be mocked and minimized and dismissed breaks you.
- To be mocked and minimized and dismissed breaks you.
- OK, but I wouldn't minimize the importance of violence either.
- But we tend to minimize broken hearts, and that's not right.
- Why evangelicals reliably deny or minimize systemic racism.
- Then after those gaslighty, lying, minimizing days, there are the normal days.
- It I mean, not not to minimize Patrick.
Examples
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The teacher tried to minimize the importance of the test to reduce student anxiety.
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Don't minimize your contribution.
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The key there is to minimize stress, not to minimize the amount of hours of work.
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So we do have options to minimize the effects of these disturbances.
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Previous family and social work efforts to minimize self-destructive behavior had resulted in little change.
Academic text (1990) -
In other words, the state must tailor its regulation to minimize impairment of religious freedom.
Academic text (1990) -
They were trying to minimize the associated harms.
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Don't... don't minimize your accomplishments, Diana.
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During the meeting, she aimed to minimize concerns about the project's timeline.
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The manager decided to minimize any issues in the report to keep the focus on the positive outcomes.
Synonyms
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4.7
Make a person or thing seem less important
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5.3
Show something as less important or serious than it is
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5.0
To make someone or something seem not important
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7.0
Make something seem less important or serious
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5.2
To make something seem smaller or less important than it really is
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4.3
To make something seem less important than it really is
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5.3
Make something seem less important than it really is
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7.6
To make a problem or bad news seem less important
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5.9
Make an idea or topic seem less important
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8.4
Say or do things that make someone seem less respected
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6.7
To give too little attention to something
To make someone's problems seem less important than they are
Treat a problem as less important to avoid dealing with it
Antonyms
How Downplayed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Minimize comes from the Latin minimus meaning 'smallest', the same root you see in minimum and mini. A helpful way to remember this meaning is that to minimize something is to make it seem 'smaller' or less important, to play it down.