Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make or cause to appear trivial: tried to trivialize their criticisms.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To render trivial or paltry.
Wiktionary
- v. To make something appear trivial
WordNet 3.0
- v. make trivial or insignificant
Examples
“Maybe you should "trivialize" Mr. Murtaugh's letter, in its entirety.”
McCain Campaign's Muddled, Self-Contradictory Message On Ayers
“So then those who "trivialize" a non-telic approach to biology, they being akin to holocaust deniers, should then be subject to the same judicial remedies.”
“Hillary Clinton and John Edwards caught making comments about getting rid of other candidates in debate the ones who quote, "trivialize" debates.”
“Israel also objects to attempts to "trivialize" the Holocaust.”
“Steyn then compared the torture memo controversy to the Miss California / gay marriage flap, all the while claiming he didn't want to "trivialize" the issue of interrogations.”
“And that law in Europe is ridiculous; I think it is anyone's right to 'trivialize' the holocaust after the zionist-driven holocaust industry has produced endless books and movies and used the holocaust as justification for further crimes against humanity and jewish religious fundamentalism.”
“And there is a tendency to kind of trivialize those things as you get older, to kind of be patronizing about those things.”
“Mr. Obama certainly feels that it is his right to demonize and trivialize and misstate the concerns of his opponents.”
“It's simply wrong to trivialize the atrocities committed by the Confederacy.”
“Nah, the coward will just brush up on Saul Alinsky, where you don't argue with facts, you argue by creating a boogeyman, demean them and trivialize them.”
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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loosen lessons
atmolyze, autolyze, cryptanalyze, photolyze, pyrolyze, realize, alize, cordialize, actualize, cyclize, artilize, aerosolize and 61 more...
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ginnylev's Words
neuroplasticity, repudiate, scintilla, ruminate, tautology, ombudsman, exigent, filibuster, grace, ambidextrous, amends, disclosure and 623 more...
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