{
  "pronunciations": {
    "phonetic": "d\u0259\u02c8m\u026an\u026a\u0283",
    "listenurl": "/var/www/html/blab/mp3/dic/diminish.mp3",
    "transkor": "\uc904\uc774\ub2e4"
  },
  "meansorg": [
    {
      "type": "Verb",
      "etymologies": "late Middle English: blend of archaic minish \u2018diminish\u2019 (based on Latin minutia \u2018smallness\u2019) and obsolete diminue \u2018speak disparagingly\u2019 (based on Latin deminuere \u2018lessen\u2019 (in late Latin diminuere), from minuere \u2018make small\u2019)",
      "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": "\ub3d9\uc0ac",
      "etymologies": "\ud6c4\uae30 \uc911\uc138 \uc601\uc5b4: \uace0\ud48d\uc2a4\ub7ec\uc6b4 \ubbf8\ub2c8\ubbf8\uc26c 'diminish'(\ub77c\ud2f4 \ubbf8\ub2c8\ubbf8\ud2f0\uc544 'smallness'\uc5d0 \uae30\ubc18\ud568)\uc640 \uad6c\uc2dd \ucd95\uc18c '\ube44\ud558\uc801\uc73c\ub85c \ub9d0\ud558\ub2e4'(\ub77c\ud2f4 \ub514\ubbf8\ub274\uc5b4 'lessen'(\ub77c\ud2f4 \ub514\ubbf8\ub274\uc5b4 \ud6c4\uae30, minuere 'mall'\uc5d0\uc11c \uc720\ub798\ud568)\uc758 \ud63c\ud569",
      "definitions": "\uc801\uac8c \ub9cc\ub4e4\uac70\ub098 \uc801\uac8c \ud558\ub2e4",
      "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": [
        "\uc9c0\ucd9c\uc744 \uc904\uc774\ub294 \uac83\uc744 \ubaa9\uc801\uc73c\ub85c \ud558\ub294 \uc138\uae08",
        "\uace0\ud1b5\uc740 \uc810\ucc28 \uc904\uc5b4\ub4e4 \uac83\uc774\ub2e4."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "allphrases": [
    "diminishing returns",
    "the law of diminishing returns"
  ],
  "arrphraseskor": [
    "\uac10\uc18c\ud558\ub294 \uc218\uc775",
    "\uc218\uc775 \uac10\uc18c\uc758 \ubc95\uce59"
  ]
}