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• achievement: That is not, however, to belittle actual achievements.

• importance: I agree with you, Jo, that name changing could be seen to belittle the importance of continuation of identity.

• effort: There are those who would now try and rewrite the history of new towns and belittle the efforts of the great social reformers.

• fact: However, not wishing to belittle the fact that a child had been bitten, the defense accepted that there was an injury.

• role: It would be an error to belittle the role and importance of planning.

• people: Maybe people would not be as hasty to belittle disabled people if they mixed more with them.

Used with why or when

• what: This is not to belittle what did happen in Seattle.

Modifying Another Word

• never: The name of one of those boys was Billy Graham ⦠Never belittle the apparently little you feel you can do!

• not: We do not belittle or mock the campaigning of any group.

• n't: The Ben is a magnificent hill - do n't belittle it.

• also: Air force censors not only hide the facts but also belittle those who publicly report UFO sightings.

• even: The curse of folk music has left scars on whole towns that belittle even the ravages of war.