Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

diminish

/dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/ verb

verb (transitive) To make smaller.
verb (intransitive) To become less or smaller.
verb (transitive) To make appear smaller than in reality; to dismiss as unimportant.
verb (transitive) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).
verb (intransitive) To taper.
verb (intransitive) To disappear gradually.
verb (transitive) To take away; to subtract.

Synonyms

Formed under the influence of both diminue (from Old French diminuer, from Latin dīminuo) and minish.

Etymology [Pref. di- (= L. dis-) + minish: cf. L. diminuere, F. diminuer, OE. diminuen. See Dis-, and Minish.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “diminish”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “diminish” (best matches first).

उपदम्भ् upa-dambh -dambha-yati, -yitum, to lesson, diminish, destroy.
कनय kanaya kanayati, -yitum, to make less or smaller, diminish.
मन्दय mandaya mandayati, -yitum, to retard; to weaken, diminish, slacken.
व्यप् vyap vyāpayati, -yitum, to throw; to throw away, diminish, waste;
लघय laghaya laghayati, etc., to make light, lighten, lessen, diminish, alleviate, mitigate, soften.
तनूकृ tanū-kṛ -karoti, -kurute, -kartum, to make thin or fine, to attenuate, diminish, emaciate; to pare.
परिलुप् pari-lup -lumpati, te, -loptum, to interrupt, break through, disturb; to suspend, diminish; to dispel.
पुट्ट् puṭṭ puṭṭayati, -yitum, to decrease, diminish; to be or become small, be or become low or shallow.