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Diminution :: Diminution (n.) The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase..

Fret :: Fret (v. t.) To impair; to wear away; to diminish.

Decrease :: Decrease (v. t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means..

Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend..

Qualify :: Qualify (v. t.) Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors..

Stegnotic :: Stegnotic (a.) Tending to render costive, or to diminish excretions or discharges generally..

Waste :: Waste (v. i.) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less..

Seventh :: Seventh (n.) A chord which includes the interval of a seventh whether major, minor, or diminished..

Disaugment :: Disaugment (v. t.) To diminish.

Lubricity :: Lubricity (n.) Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil..

Antiplastic :: Antiplastic (a.) Diminishing plasticity.

Tarsorrhaphy :: Tarsorrhaphy (n.) An operation to diminish the size of the opening between eyelids when enlarged by surrounding cicatrices.

Remain :: Remain (v. i.) To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last..

Diminish :: Diminish (v. t.) To take away; to subtract.

Wantrust :: Wantrust (n.) Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust.

Pale :: Pale (v. t.) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

Teinoscope :: Teinoscope (n.) An instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; -- called also prism telescope.

Wear :: Wear (v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually..

Labor-saving :: Labor-saving (a.) Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, labor-saving machinery..

Waste :: Waste (a.) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

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