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Webster 1828 Edition


Diminished

DIMINISHED

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Lessened; made smaller; reduced in size; contracted; degraded.

Definition 2024


diminished

diminished

English

Verb

diminished

  1. simple past tense and past participle of diminish

Adjective

diminished (comparative more diminished, superlative most diminished)

  1. lessened, reduced.
    The diminished Roman Empire never recovered from the sack of Rome.
  2. (music) reduced by a semitone