diminish
Example Sentences
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Other leagues have draft lotteries to diminish the incentive for being completely terrible.
But any suggestion this was a diminished spectacle, and one that should historically be marked with an asterisk as not a proper Test, is wide of the mark.
From BBC
As the already ephemeral freeze-thaw cycle is compressed or diminished, it might be possible, in Canada, to extend the country’s sugar-maple forests by planting trees north of the existing ones.
Four years of missile and drone strikes have significantly diminished Ukraine’s power generation.
One potential consequence of miners shift: diminished U.S. production and a growing share of bitcoin production moving overseas.
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