(v. t.) To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
(v. t.) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
(v. t.) To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
(v. t.) To take away; to subtract.
(v. i.) To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diminished CMD was most common with AR (7 of 12) but was also seen with acute tubular necrosis (2 of 6) and cyclosporin toxicity (2 of 3).
(2) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
(3) The results indicated that the role of contact inhibition phenomena in arresting cellular proliferation was diminished in perfusion system environments.
(4) In vitro studies in cardiac Purkinje fibers suggested that reversal of amitriptyline-induced cardiac membrane effects by sodium bicarbonate may be attributed not only to alkalinization but also to increased in extracellular sodium concentration, diminishing the local anesthetic action of amitriptyline and resulting in less sodium channel block.
(5) Virus replication in nasal turbinates was not diminished while infection in the lung was suppressed sufficiently for the infected mice to survive the infection.
(6) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(7) In contrast, insertion of a pre-S(1) sequence between HBcAg residues 75 and 83 abrogated recognition of HBcAg by 5 of 6 anti-HBc monoclonal antibodies and diminished recognition by human polyclonal anti-HBc.
(8) In addition, the activity of the large cells diminished with time after primary immunization, but that of the small cells remained stable.
(9) The antibody reacted with adult as well as with cord red cells, and its reactivity was strongly diminished by treatment of the cells with neuraminidase and to a lesser degree by treatment with protease.
(10) The concomitant reduction in aortic pressure and increase in heart rate following total occlusion of the portal vein were most pronounced during the first weeks after stenosis, and were probably due to diminished venous return to the heart.
(11) Conversely, the latter diminished basal plasma glucose levels.
(12) Subsequently, the inflammatory reaction diminishes, as can be seen on smears from tympanic effusions.
(13) Both Apo AI (48%) and Apo AII (5.5%) were greatly diminished and Apo E was present in remarkably high amounts (39%) with two additional isoforms (Apo E'1 and Apo E'2).
(14) (3) The diminished autophosphorylation rate was due to a decreased responsiveness of the kinase activity to the action of insulin.
(15) The isoenzyme mobility diminished in both tumour chromatin extracts, and the slow migrating gamma isoenzyme exhibited sensitivity to L-cysteine inhibition.
(16) Segmental function was diminished an average of 67.8% in "noses" and 46.6% in "bridges".
(17) Flexion of the knee beyond 40 degrees progressively diminished viability of the edges of the wound, particularly the lateral edge.
(18) EEG waves were similar during Aw and Qw but they diminished in amplitude and frequency when passing from these states to Qs, and both parameters increased during As.
(19) After 3-5 days of side-arm traction, swelling had usually diminished sufficiently to allow the elbow to be safely hyperflexed to stabilize the fracture after elective closed reduction.
(20) In the patients with aplastic anaemia the iron flux was diminished, but never eliminated, demonstrating that the exchangeable compartment was not solely erythroblastic, but included non-erythroid transferrin receptors.
Straiten
Definition:
(v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.
(v. t.) To make tense, or tight; to tighten.
(v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his enforced absence following a dramatic fall from grace that symbolises many of the ills of football’s culture of entitlement, France will be hoping football can again bring the nation together in the most straitened of times.
(2) Ai Weiwei , the big man of Beijing, has spent years discovering pockets of freedom in the most straitened circumstances, resisting every effort by the Chinese government to shut him down.
(3) It’s a unique place.” It may say something about Bradford’s straitened circumstances that, whereas some city leaders hold court from palatial offices, the leader of Bradford district council’s HQ is comically modest.
(4) In such straitened circumstances, accepting more pupils may seem an obvious way to generate extra cash.
(5) "It's vital that in straitened economic times, the UK government does not make the grave mistake of making cuts to higher education and research funding or spreading limited funds too thinly," the foreword says.
(6) Even if the company laboured under financial constraints that sometimes made getting the paper out each night seem like a Sisyphean miracle, I could never really regret them, selfishly speaking: I had nothing more lavish with which to compare the circumstances, and if things hadn’t been so straitened I never would have had a shot at the comical series of overpromotions that defined my time there.
(7) Lectures from Brussels on the need to cut public spending and balance budgets, given the desperately straitened times, have added insult to injury.
(8) The first option is understandable, but the second is essential in the straitened circumstances that will cast a long shadow over public services for the foreseeable future.
(9) The reforms were about the survival of the NHS in straitened times.
(10) It is almost inconceivable that in these straitened times local authorities, whose budgets have been decimated, could launch their own school building programme without government support.
(11) It’s for people like us.” I found this difficult to comprehend given our straitened circumstances, but I have never forgotten the message.
(12) The announcement is designed to show that even in straitened economic times the government is committed to pressing ahead with radical plans to promote economic growth.
(13) So when people have close contact with schools and find they are actually brilliant, relief and surprise combine to create the impression that, in spite of straitened conditions, the government is doing quite well.
(14) Other companies, from Hull Truck to London’s Young Vic – also looking for ways to cope in increasingly straitened times – are joining the Rep to mount co-productions.
(15) (He is accustomed, having lived as a Jew under nazism and a Pole under communism, to straitened scenarios.)
(16) But London, even in these straitened times, not only has money available to keep cultural spending at the same level, it can actually increase it.
(17) Vekaric said Mladic had suffered increasingly straitened circumstances since 2006, when he narrowly evaded arrest in the village of Ljuba.
(18) Chelsea's owner was also angered by Arnesen's ill-advised decision to discuss the owner's straitened finances in public.
(19) In spite of the family's straitened circumstances, her application and quick intelligence advanced her steadily.
(20) The privation that contributed to Balan’s death didn’t occur in the straitened circumstance of a refugee camp, or on the borderlands of a war-torn region.