Word: diminisher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...motion forces that reduce the amount of rainfall in a given area. In a rain forest, for example, as much as half the moisture settles on trees and quickly evaporates into the sky, only to precipitate again in a continuous cycle. Thus when trees are cut down, rainfall may diminish...
...over, and a track meet is once again simply a track meet. While athletes and their coaches are as happy as anyone else about peace, the disappearance of the symbolic moral struggle has taken away a certain dramatic appeal -- and has led to pragmatic worry that subsidies will soon diminish. Both those concerns have been evident at the Goodwill Games in Seattle, which with 186 medal events in 21 sports is the first large-scale encounter between U.S. and Soviet athletes since the revolutions in Eastern Europe...
Milli Vanilli has so far survived the hilarious barbs of Arsenio Hall, + almost unanimous critical disdain and its own supercilious egotism to score a total of five Top Five singles. Even the hotly debated rumor that they don't do their own singing in live performance doesn't diminish their commercial luster. "If I'd heard the first Milli Vanilli record, I would have signed them," says Geffen Records president Ed Rosenblatt. Notes Jeff Gold, a vice president at Warner Bros. Records: "They may not be what I listen to when I go home, but they have good looks...
...commitment of the University to this type of investment is definitely firm. Treasurer D. Ronald Daniel says that although the University would not want to put more than one-fifth of the endowment into such holdings, it definitely will not diminish its involvement...
...even great expectations could not diminish the celebration when the title was finally captured. The Crimson rolled through an unblemished 15-game schedule. They weren't alone when the final horn sounded--more than 200 Harvard fans made the trek to Palmer Stadium in Princeton in the middle of final exams to help celebrate the title...