Object

• return: The law of diminishing returns must by now be in force?

• likelihood: The concept originated during the post-war era to promote better understanding between European people to diminish the likelihood of more terrible conflict.

• usefulness: In practice we may have degrees of dissociation, but this does not diminish the usefulness of the concept.

• credibility: Thus the policy of so-called openness would diminish the credibility of the Council.

• effectiveness: It seems fairly clear that poverty can significantly diminish the effectiveness with which individuals can exercise these rights.

• importance: A short marriage will not diminish the importance of contributions on the facts of a particular case.

Adjective complement

• due: However, Korea's competitiveness relative to China may be diminishing partly due to increased labor costs.

Modifying Another Word

• greatly: I consider the just solution to reflect the greatly diminished assets is to award the wife £ 220,000 or 41 % of the capital.

• gradually: What happens is that you come to terms with it; the pain diminishes gradually with time.

• rapidly: However, for many people due to the changing nature of work the concept of a job career for life is rapidly diminishing.

• considerably: Interestingly, the rate of decline of costs has diminished considerably over the last 4 years.

• markedly: Markedly diminished pleasure in all ( or almost all ) activities.

• steadily: Some would argue this reflects how television's interest in World War II is an obsession, mining a steadily diminishing seam.

Used with why or when

• when: Civilization, as a whole, is diminished when a child dies from malnutrition or from a curable disease.

Preposition: in

• stature: If Mary had written a Gospel or an Epistle herself surely she would have diminished in stature.

• proportion: So also the number of the images was diminished in proportion as they were nearer the eye which saw them [ Footnote 22.

• size: After about three generations our jaws would begin to diminish in size and strength due to lack of use.

• importance: This fair has latterly diminished in importance, and is now but thinly frequented.

Preposition: with

• distance: Broadly, values diminished concentrically with distance from the two major commercial foci of the metropolis.

• age: Changes with aging The ability to maintain attention over a wide area seems to diminish with age.