...acortarse, to slacken, abate, diminish... 
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
...They were advised not to speak, lest their talking might diminish the virtue of the medicine; few indeed would have thought of disobeying the orders of the canoe-smasher...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
..."Cranch, I fear," says Professor Smith, "by his absurd conduct, will diminish the liberality of the captain towards us: he is like a pointed arrow to the company...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...Let your next object be to obtain as soon as may be, a competency of the good things of this world; immense wealth is not necessary for you, and would but diminish your real happiness...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
...But to produce beyond his strength and needs, he must invade the production of another, and consequently diminish the number of producers...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...Withthese vast sums, which they extort from the people, they increaseinstead of diminish suffering...
Various 「Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906」
...This did not, however, diminish the disappointmentat not taking at least one of the old ones...
Various 「Hunting in Many Lands」
...Though the presence of the grub constitutes no disease,some think it well to diminish their number by all convenient means...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...They need not be very closetogether, as the wound will diminish greatly when the womb contracts...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
... and that the bird population does not diminish...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...The firing began to diminish...
John Charles Beecham 「The Argus Pheasant」
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