minimize

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.

   “We have to minimize the budget.”

2. fiil To relegate or assign (something) to a less insignificant status; diminish.

   “The insurance adjuster tried to minimize the extent of the damage to lessen the company's exposure to liability.”

3. fiil To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.

   “I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.”

4. fiil To treat (someone) in a slighting manner.

   “[…] father who had never openly minimized him or anything he did […]”

5. fiil To treat as trivial or insignificant; to trivialize.

   “to minimize someone's feelings”