| query | If you m_______ a risk, problem, or unpleasant situation, you reduce it to the lowest possible level, or prevent it increasing beyond that level.If you minimize a risk, problem, or unpleasant situation, you reduce it to the lowest possible level, or prevent it increasing beyond that level. Concerned people want to minimize the risk of developing cancer. Many of these problems can be minimised by sensible planning. |
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| word | minimize |
| full-definition | verb If you minimize a risk, problem, or unpleasant situation, you reduce it to the lowest possible level, or prevent it increasing beyond that level. Concerned people want to minimize the risk of developing cancer. Many of these problems can be minimised by sensible planning. If you minimize something, you make it seem smaller or less significant than it really is. Some have minimized the importance of ideological factors. At his trial, he tried to minimize his behavior. If you minimize a window on a computer screen, you make it very small, because you do not want to use it. Click the square icon again to minimize the window. |
| inflections | minimizesminimizingminimized |
| cefr-level | C1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1
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