minimize

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From Latin

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Infinitive
to minimize

Third person singular
minimizes

Simple past
minimized

Past participle
minimized

Present participle
minimizing

to minimize (third-person singular simple present minimizes, present participle minimizing, simple past and past participle minimized)

  1. (transitive) To make (something) as small or as insignificant as possible.
  2. (computing) (transitive) To cause a window to disappear without closing the program or file or discarding any data.
    I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.

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