Minimize

Quick meaning: Minimize is a verb meaning (transitive) To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To relegate or assign (something) to a less insignificant status; diminish.
2. (computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
3. (transitive) To treat (someone) in a slighting manner.
4. (transitive) To treat as trivial or insignificant; to trivialize.

Example Sentences

Try to minimize your biases.

We have to minimize the budget.

[…] father who had never openly minimized him or anything he did […]

I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.

Word Forms

• minimizes
• minimizing
• minimized
• minimise

Synonyms for minimize

Depending on context, synonyms include besmall, smallify, abase, abate, belittle, embase.

Antonyms for minimize

Common opposites include maximize, amplify, magnify, exaggerate, hyperbolize, overstate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include derogate, belittle, denigrate, understate, lessen, reduced.

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