Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make minimal.
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- verb To reduce to a
minimum
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Examples
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However, I loved the way you wrote about it and your efforts to try to minimalize it at first not wanting to actually admit how sick you really felt.
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While DC is being accused of sensationalizing shark blood and gore for money it seems from the note above that the tourist industry wants to minimalize it for the same reasons.
Global Voices in English » Global: The push to boycott Shark Week 2009
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Let's minimalize breakfast, I'll use the Fakerjack steel to minimalize the HOTT bike.
Minimizing Windows: Just Call Me Aimless in the Morning BikeSnobNYC 2010
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#63 Mergatroid Thank you for saying that, I felt that way too but as I have not had a loss of a pregnancy felt it was not my place to say so, I first thought of my friends who tried unsuccessfully for three years before choosing to stop trying and adopt, to minimalize a serious probelm into being so easy to resolve is insulting.
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If one has a religious life, one can rationalize one's slide into the abyss; if one has a sense of humor (and a sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised), one can minimalize it through irony and wit.
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#64 SuperSnark : “to minimalize a serious probelm into being so easy to resolve is insulting.”
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It was supposed to be a close contest as it was, stop trying to minimalize another Hillary lost.
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Don't rich people take cocaine to minimalize the need for sleep?
Good News for the Poor: You Can Afford to Have Nothing! BikeSnobNYC 2010
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The Attack and Avoid plan, which W. used to minimalize and marginalize the press, was effective.
Brian Ross: Barack Obama is the Roger Federer of the Press Conference 2009
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But because they dont vote the way you want them to vote, you minimalize them the way soft racist "social progressives" like Geraldine Ferraro minimalize blacks (I pity them, but I shouldn't have to actually compete against them as equal human beings).
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