minify
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make less.
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to minimize.
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of minify
1670–80; < Latin min ( us ) less + -ify, modeled on magnify
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It's common to minify CSS and JavaScript files by removing whitespace and comments, renaming variables, and a few other tricks.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2013
Disposition has also its concave and convex lenses, which magnify some things and minify others.
From The True Citizen, How to Become One by Markwick, W. F.
Unless this fact be kept in mind, the influence of the Church upon Masonry, which no one seeks to minify, may easily be exaggerated.
From The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry by Newton, Joseph Fort
But by no means do I ever overlook or minify the fact that this is one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life.
From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark
III I here hesitate before a little adventure which I would not make too much of nor yet minify: it seems to me so gentle and winning.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean
As in the Hero-Worship, he shows this Teutonic bias, and the religious training that minified Greek literature.
From The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature by Nordby, Conrad Hjalmar
It has throughout denied or minified Mendelian results, and depended on the treatment of inheritance by a study of correlations.
From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul
No doubt engineering may succeed in removing some of the obstacles and in minifying the dangers of this passage.
From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)
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