minimize

Definition

To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.

Etymology

From Latin minimus + -ize.

Example Sentences

• "We have to minimize the budget."
• "Try to minimize your biases."
• "Terry, author of the indispensable Terry's Guide to Mexico, has a name for it – atrabiliousness. "The defect of many of the murals," he says, speaking of those in the orphan asylum, "is the facial atrabiliousness of some of the subjects. To the observer it minimizes the grandeur of the conception […]""