LekhoriLekhoriTo make smaller.
The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.
To become less or smaller.
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
To make appear smaller than in reality; to dismiss as unimportant.
Formed under the influence of both diminue (from Old French diminuer, from Latin dīminuo) and minish.
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