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
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 Joseph Fort Newton
It has become a habit with some to make light of these grim and terrible facts, to minify the suffering experienced, or to try and impute the terrible condition to drink.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
These smiths wear coverings over their ears to minify the noise of their hammering.
From A Columbus of Space by Garrett Putman Serviss
Disposition has also its concave and convex lenses, which magnify some things and minify others.
From The True Citizen, How to Become One by W. F. Markwick
It has throughout denied or minified Mendelian results, and depended on the treatment of inheritance by a study of correlations.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
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 Conrad Hjalmar Nordby
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 W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons) Martin
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