{
  "type": "oxford",
  "pronunc": {
    "phonetic": "dəˈmɪnɪʃ",
    "listenurl": "/var/www/html/blab/mp3/dic/diminish.mp3",
    "transkor": "줄이다"
  },
  "meansorg": [
    {
      "type": "Verb",
      "etymologies": "late Middle English: blend of archaic minish ‘diminish’ (based on Latin minutia ‘smallness’) and obsolete diminue ‘speak disparagingly’ (based on Latin deminuere ‘lessen’ (in late Latin diminuere), from minuere ‘make small’)",
      "definitions": "make or become less",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decrease"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decline"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "reduce"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lessen"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "shrink"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "contract"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "grow smaller"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "fall off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "drop off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "slacken off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "reduce"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "curtail"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "cut"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "cut down"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "cut back"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "prune"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "pare down"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lessen"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lower"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decrease"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "shrink"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "contract"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "narrow"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "constrict"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "restrict"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "limit"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "curb"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "check"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "blunt"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "subside"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "wane"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "abate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dwindle"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "fade"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decline"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "slacken"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "moderate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "ebb"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "recede"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "die away"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "die down"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "die out"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "peter out"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "tail off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "cool off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "let up"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "fizzle out"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "settle down"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "come to an end"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "a tax whose purpose is to diminish spending",
        "the pain will gradually diminish"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "meanskor": [
    {
      "type": "동사",
      "etymologies": "후기 중세 영어: 고풍스러운 미니미쉬 'diminish'(라틴 미니미티아 'smallness'에 기반함)와 구식 축소 '비하적으로 말하다'(라틴 디미뉴어 'lessen'(라틴 디미뉴어 후기, minuere 'mall'에서 유래함)의 혼합",
      "definitions": "적게 만들거나 적게 하다",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decrease"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decline"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "reduce"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lessen"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "shrink"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "contract"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "grow smaller"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "fall off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "drop off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "slacken off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "reduce"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "curtail"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "cut"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "cut down"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "cut back"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "prune"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "pare down"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lessen"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lower"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decrease"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "shrink"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "contract"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "narrow"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "constrict"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "restrict"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "limit"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "curb"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "check"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "blunt"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "subside"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "wane"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "abate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "dwindle"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "fade"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "decline"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "slacken"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "moderate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "ebb"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "recede"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "die away"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "die down"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "die out"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "peter out"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "tail off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "cool off"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "let up"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "fizzle out"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "settle down"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "come to an end"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "지출을 줄이는 것을 목적으로 하는 세금",
        "고통은 점차 줄어들 것이다."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "phrasesorg": [
    "diminishing returns",
    "the law of diminishing returns"
  ],
  "phraseskor": [
    "감소하는 수익",
    "수익 감소의 법칙"
  ]
}