English

Detailed Synonyms for minimize in English

minimize:

to minimize verb, American (minimizes, minimized, minimizing)

  1. to minimize
    to minimize; to reduce; to scale down; to crop; to trim; to shorten; to minimise
    • minimize verb, American (minimizes, minimized, minimizing)
    • reduce verb (reduces, reduced, reducing)
    • scale down verb (scales down, scaled down, scaling down)
    • crop verb (crops, cropped, cropping)
    • trim verb (trims, trimmed, trimming)
    • shorten verb (shortens, shortened, shortening)
    • minimise verb, British
  2. to minimize
    – make small or insignificant 1
    to minimize; minimise
    – make small or insignificant 1
    • minimize verb, American (minimizes, minimized, minimizing)
      • Let's minimize the risk1
    • minimise verb, British
  3. to minimize
    – represent as less significant or important 1
    to minimize; minimise; understate; downplay
    – represent as less significant or important 1
  4. to minimize
    – cause to seem less serious; play down 1
    to minimize; to belittle; denigrate; derogate; minimise
    – cause to seem less serious; play down 1
  5. to minimize
    – To reduce a window to a button on the taskbar by clicking the Minimize button (leftmost button on the right side of the title bar) or by pressing ALT+SPACEBAR and then pressing N. 2
    to minimize
    – To reduce a window to a button on the taskbar by clicking the Minimize button (leftmost button on the right side of the title bar) or by pressing ALT+SPACEBAR and then pressing N. 2
    • minimize verb (minimizes, minimized, minimizing)

Conjugations for minimize:

present
  1. minimize
  2. minimize
  3. minimizes
  4. minimize
  5. minimize
  6. minimize
simple past
  1. minimized
  2. minimized
  3. minimized
  4. minimized
  5. minimized
  6. minimized
present perfect
  1. have minimized
  2. have minimized
  3. has minimized
  4. have minimized
  5. have minimized
  6. have minimized
past continuous
  1. was minimizing
  2. were minimizing
  3. was minimizing
  4. were minimizing
  5. were minimizing
  6. were minimizing
future
  1. shall minimize
  2. will minimize
  3. will minimize
  4. shall minimize
  5. will minimize
  6. will minimize
continuous present
  1. am minimizing
  2. are minimizing
  3. is minimizing
  4. are minimizing
  5. are minimizing
  6. are minimizing
subjunctive
  1. be minimized
  2. be minimized
  3. be minimized
  4. be minimized
  5. be minimized
  6. be minimized
diverse
  1. minimize!
  2. let's minimize!
  3. minimized
  4. minimizing
1. I, 2. you, 3. he/she/it, 4. we, 5. you, 6. they

minimize American

  1. minimize
    minimize; minimise

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Related Definitions for "minimize":

  1. make small or insignificant1
    • Let's minimize the risk1
  2. represent as less significant or important1
  3. cause to seem less serious; play down1
  4. To reduce a window to a button on the taskbar by clicking the Minimize button (leftmost button on the right side of the title bar) or by pressing ALT+SPACEBAR and then pressing N.2