VERB | communication | minimise, understate, minimize, downplay | represent as less significant or important |
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change | minimise, minimize | make small or insignificant |
Meaning | represent as less significant or important. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Synonyms | understate, minimize, downplay | |
Entailed by | sandbag | downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game / game / game in order to deceive, as in gambling |
Narrower | trivialize, trivialise | make trivial or insignificant |
Broader | inform | Impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to |
Opposite | overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify | To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth |
Spanish | minimizar | |
Nouns | minimisation | the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position |
minimum | the smallest possible quantity |
Meaning | make small or insignificant. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
Synonym | minimize | |
Narrower | hedge | minimize loss or risk |
Broader | decrease, lessen, minify | make smaller |
Opposite | maximize, maximise | make as big or large as possible |
Spanish | minimizar | |
Catalan | minimitzar | |
Nouns | minimisation | the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position |
minimum | the smallest possible quantity |
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