Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to minimize
Participle: minimized
Gerund: minimizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | minimize |
| you | minimize |
| he;she;it | minimizes |
| we | minimize |
| you | minimize |
| they | minimize |
Perfect
| I | have minimized |
| you | have minimized |
| he;she;it | has minimized |
| we | have minimized |
| you | have minimized |
| they | have minimized |
Past
| I | minimized |
| you | minimized |
| he;she;it | minimized |
| we | minimized |
| you | minimized |
| they | minimized |
Pluperfect
| I | had minimized |
| you | had minimized |
| he;she;it | had minimized |
| we | had minimized |
| you | had minimized |
| they | had minimized |
Future
| I | will minimize |
| you | will minimize |
| he;she;it | will minimize |
| we | will minimize |
| you | will minimize |
| they | will minimize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have minimized |
| you | will have minimized |
| he;she;it | will have minimized |
| we | will have minimized |
| you | will have minimized |
| they | will have minimized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | minimize |
| you | minimize |
| he;she;it | minimize |
| we | minimize |
| you | minimize |
| they | minimize |
Perfect
| I | have minimized |
| you | have minimized |
| he;she;it | have minimized |
| we | have minimized |
| you | have minimized |
| they | have minimized |
Imperfect
| I | minimized |
| you | minimized |
| he;she;it | minimized |
| we | minimized |
| you | minimized |
| they | minimized |
Pluperfect
| I | had minimized |
| you | had minimized |
| he;she;it | had minimized |
| we | had minimized |
| you | had minimized |
| they | had minimized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would minimize |
| you | would minimize |
| he;she;it | would minimize |
| we | would minimize |
| you | would minimize |
| they | would minimize |
Perfect
| I | would have minimized |
| you | would have minimized |
| he;she;it | would have minimized |
| we | would have minimized |
| you | would have minimized |
| they | would have minimized |
Imperative
| you | minimize |
| we | Let's minimize |
| you | minimize |
Verbs conjugated like 'minimize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'minimize'
minimise,
finitize,
maximize,
minimalize,
minionize,
minorize,
sinicize,
Sinicize,
unminimize,
amidinize,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Latin minimus + -ize.
Verbs referencing "minimize"
French
minimiser.
Sample Sentences
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We have to minimize the budget.
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Try to minimize your biases.
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Terry, author of the indispensable Terry's Guide to Mexico, has a name for it – atrabiliousness. "The defect of many of the murals," he says, speaking of those in the orphan asylum, "is the facial atrabiliousness of some of the subjects. To the observer it minimizes the grandeur of the conception […]" [1948, Willard Price, Roving South, Rio Grande to Patagonia, New York, N.Y.: J. Day Co., →OCLC, page 13:]
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For accurate stopping, the drive must incorporate means for minimizing inertia overdrift. [1954, Instruments and Control Systems - Volume 27, page 1466:]
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One way to minimize or mitigate the copycat effect is to deemphasize the perpetrator and deglorify the violence in real and fictional stories. [2023, Jacqueline B. Helfgott, Copycat Crime:]
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The insurance adjuster tried to minimize the extent of the damage to lessen the company's exposure to liability.
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I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.
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[…] father who had never openly minimized him or anything he did […] [1993, Jan McDaniel, One Golden Summer, page 95:]
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to minimize someone's feelings