Minimize vs Understate - What's the difference?
minimize | understate |
To make (something) as small or as insignificant as possible.
(computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
To state something with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay.
To state something with a lack of emphasis, in order to express irony.
To state a quantity that is too low.
As verbs the difference between minimize and understate
is that minimize is to make (something) as small or as insignificant as possible while understate is to state something with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay.minimize
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* (l) (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(minimiz)- I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.