Diminished
Diminished is to make smaller or less or to cause to appear so.
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Famous quotes containing the word diminished:
“A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The bird would cease and be as other birds
But that he knows in singing not to sing.
The question that he frames in all but words
Is what to make of a diminished thing.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the means are increased.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)