verb
- Make small or insignificant.
- usage: "Let's minimize the risk"
- Represent as less significant or important.
- synonyms: understate, minimize, minimise, downplay
- Cause to seem less serious; play down.
- usage: "Don't belittle his influence"
adjective
- Reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree. .
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