Usually means: Reduces in size, extent, importance.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. diminishes: Merriam-Webster
  2. diminishes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. diminishes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Diminishes, diminishes: Wordnik
  5. diminishes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. diminishes: Wiktionary
  7. diminishes: Dictionary.com
  8. diminishes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. diminishes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diminishes: Legal dictionary

(Note: See diminish as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (diminish)

verb:  (transitive) To make smaller.
verb:  (intransitive) To become less or smaller.
verb:  (transitive) To make appear smaller than in reality; to dismiss as unimportant.
verb:  (transitive) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).
verb:  (intransitive) To taper.
verb:  (intransitive) To disappear gradually.
verb:  (transitive) To take away; to subtract.
▸ Also see diminish


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