Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being reduced in size, volume, or importance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being diminished or lessened.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That may be
diminished
Etymologies
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diminish + -able
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Examples
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Results suggest that "people have a diminishable supply of energy that the body and mind use to engage in self-control," says study author Kathleen Vohs, a consumer psychology professor at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.
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Among the goods of nature he considers not to be diminishable by evil are time and eternity.
Philip the Chancellor McCluskey, Colleen 2007
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