Diminish vs Anaesthetise - What's the difference?
diminish | anaesthetise | Related terms |
To make smaller.
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, title= To become smaller.
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, title= To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
* Bible, Ezekiel xxix. 15
* Milton
To taper.
To disappear gradually.
To take away; to subtract.
* Bible, Deuteronomy iv. 2
(music) To reduce a perfect or minor interval by a semitone.
* 1905 , William Gilman Thompson, Practical dietetics: With Special Reference to Diet in Diseases , page 524:
* 2007 , Linda Davies, Into the Fire , Twenty First Century Publishers Ltd., page 84:
Diminish is a related term of anaesthetise.
As verbs the difference between diminish and anaesthetise
is that diminish is to make smaller while anaesthetise is .diminish
English
Verb
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- This doth nothing diminish their opinion.
- I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
- O thou at whose sight all the stars / Hide their diminished heads.
- Neither shall ye diminish aught from it.
Derived terms
* law of diminishing returnsanaesthetise
English
Verb
(anaesthetis)- The retching may be overcome by painting or spraying the pharynx with a 2- or 4-per-cent solution of cocain, or, as Stewart recommends, by allowing the patient to swallow a few drops of the solution, to anaesthetise the oesophagus.
- But now she was freed of the daily slavery of the office, and she no longer needed to drink to accompany Roddy, or to anaesthetise herself to his friends.