DIMINISH
diminish
Verb
- To make smaller.
- To become smaller.
- To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
- To taper.
- To disappear gradually.
- To take away; to subtract.
- To reduce a perfect or minor interval by a semitone.
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