minify

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Then let us truly magnify Him--not minify, as the theologians do.

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  1. transitive verb To make smaller or less significant; reduce.

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  • Ah, but it turns out that minify has been around longer than, say, anyone currently writing about how English is being ruined.
  • Also, you can EASILY minify your CSS as part of your build / launch / go-live process. —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • In short it can merge and minify CSS and JavaScript files, but there's more to it than just that. —  doggdot.us
  • For instance, by default, Juicer won't minify files unless they pass JsLint. —  doggdot.us
  • If you just want to check a file (and not merge / minify it and so on), you can invoke juicer verify app. js —  doggdot.us
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  1. min(imum) + (magn)ify.

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  1. Irreg., after the analogy of magnify, from Latin minor, minus, less. + -ficare, make: see minor, minus, min, and -fy.
 

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/ˈmɪnɪfai/
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