Diminutize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Diminutize is a verb meaning To put (a word, name) in a diminutive form.
Meaning
To put (a word, name) in a diminutive form.
More Meanings
- To make (someone or something) appear smaller (often in a figurative sense).
Example Sentences
[…] her name is Concepcion, diminutized: Concha […]
[He] was a small wizened man whose face was diminutized by a large flat-brimmed black stetson.
From that evening on—Christ, her father was a Nobel laureate and dead to boot—I could not look in the mirror without seeing a hamster […] Her billions diminutized me. I was a kept man. A gigolo. A rodent.
2007, Bruce Donaldson, German: An Essential Grammar, London: Routledge, Section 6.3, p. 41, All diminutized nouns, whatever their original gender, become neuter once they take either of [the] endings [-chen or -lein].
Word Forms
- diminutizes
- diminutizing
- diminutized
- diminutise
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include diminutivise, diminutivize, diminute, diminish, deminish, minimize.
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