1. to make or become smaller in size, amount, or degree; to diminish
Usage: archaic

Examples

• The old text spoke of how time would minish their sorrows.
• His strength began to minish as the illness progressed.
• The ancient remedy was said to minish pain and suffering.
• Years of weather had minished the stone carvings.
• She watched her savings minish with each passing month.
• The poet wrote of how age would minish beauty’s power.