MINIMIZATIONS Synonyms

• the temporal property of being cut short

• the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

• the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

• a reduction in quantity or rate

• a change downward

• a process of becoming smaller or shorter

• the amount by which something decreases

• the act of decreasing or reducing something

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• make become smaller

• the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

• a change downward

• the act of causing to become less

• the act of causing something to move to a lower level

• darkened by clouds

• to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious

• a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances

• the action of lessening in severity or intensity

• the act of decreasing or reducing something

• any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent

• the act of reducing complexity

• process or result of becoming less or smaller

• the amount by which something shrinks

• the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store

• the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position