minimize

Verb

Verb Forms: minimized, minimizing, minimizes

• To make something as small or as insignificant as possible.
• make small or insignificant
  • "Let's minimize the risk"
• represent as less significant or important
• cause to seem less serious; play down
• To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
• To relegate or assign (something) to a less insignificant status; diminish.
• To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
• To treat (someone) in a slighting manner.

Examples

• Her goal was to MINIMIZE the risk of her opponent getting a bonus for all seven tiles.
• I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.
• The insurance adjuster tried to minimize the extent of the damage to lessen the company's exposure to liability.
• Try to minimize your biases.
• We have to minimize the budget.

Synonyms

belittle, denigrate, derogate, downplay, minimise, understate

Antonyms

maximise, maximize, overstate