Reverse Dictionary: DIMINISH

ADJECTIVES
► BURNER diminished → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DEFALCATE curtailed, diminished → 1531 obs.
► DIMINUTE diminished, lessened; abated; incomplete, defective​, imperfect → c1475  obs.
► IMMINUTE diminished, lessened → a1681 obs.
► TAPER of resources: diminishing, becoming more and more ‘slender’; at an end, nearly exhausted → 1851 sl. or colloq.

NOUNS
► ABATUDE something which is or has been diminished → 1729 obs.
► ADMINISHING reduction, decrease, diminishing → 1400 obs.

VERBS
► ATOMIZE to diminish in size or importance → 1645
► BATE to decrease in amount, weight, estimation; to abate, to diminish, to fall off in quantity  → a1541 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► DEBATE to abate; to beat down, to bring down, to lower, to reduce, to lessen, to diminish → c1450 obs.
► DECOCT to diminish, to consume, to waste → 1629 obs.
► DEFALK to diminish by cutting off a part, to reduce by deductions → 1475 obs.
► DEQUANTITATE to diminish the quantity or amount of; to lessen → 1646 obs.
► DISQUANTITY to lessen in quantity, to diminish → 1605
► FAIK ► FALK to abate, to diminish, to lessen; to deduct → 1445 Sc.
► FAINT to make less, to diminish → 1599 obs.
► GO OFF to pass off, to diminish → 1857 Amer. dial.
► IMMINISH to diminish; to belittle → a1400 obs.
► INLESS to make less, to diminish → 1515 obs.
► LESS to make less, to lessen, to diminish → a1300 obs.
► LOW to lessen, to diminish; to reduce a price or value → 1340
► MILL IN to shrink; to wither; to diminish in quantity → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MINIFY to diminish in estimated size or importance; to regard or represent something as smaller than it really is → 1676
► MINORATE to lessen, to diminish, to depreciate → 1534 obs.
► MINUATE to make less, to diminish, to reduce → 1657 obs.
► PERSWAGE to assuage, to lessen, to diminish, to dim → 1503 obs.
​► PETER OUT to diminish in energy → 1995 US sl. (Bk.)
► RABBATE to abate or diminish → a1398 obs.
► RAPE to diminish the effects of; to reduce someone’s pleasure → 1980s sl.
► RAPE SOMEONE’S BUZZ of a person or thing: to put a damper on someone’s pleasure → 1980s US students’ sl.
► RETUND to weaken physically; to diminish the strength or effect of → M17 obs.
► TAKE OFF to diminish → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► THIN to lessen in numbers, to diminish → 1791 Sc.
► TIRE to fail, to cease (as a supply, etc.); to diminish; to give out, to come to an end → c725 obs.
► WADE AWAY to diminish gradually; to cause to diminish → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WANZE to diminish, to waste; later, to render lean → a1121 obs.
► WELK to become less, to diminish, to shrink → 1390 obs.