diminish
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Diminish the flow, and saltwater contaminates the drinking water supply and the entire natural system that sustains human populations, not just wildlife.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2023
More From William D. Cohan » March 16, 2010 Divide and Diminish The human impulse to parcel nature into smaller and smaller plots is a danger to biodiversity.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2010
More From Robert Wright » March 16, 2010 Divide and Diminish The human impulse to parcel nature into smaller and smaller plots is a danger to biodiversity.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2010
Diminish the sincerity, and you will diminish the persecution; in other words, by weakening the virtue you may check the evil.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
Diminish, di-min′ish, v.t. to make less: to take a part from: to degrade.—v.i. to grow or appear less: to subside.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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