minimising

Cutting down significantly

Minimising is the British spelling of minimizing—reducing something to its smallest possible amount, degree, or importance.

To minimise risk is to take steps to lower it.

To minimise someone's achievements is to downplay or trivialise them: He kept minimising her contributions to the project.

The spelling with -ise is standard in British English, while American English uses -ize.

reduce

decrease

Become or make smaller

lessenReduce in degree
curtailTo cut short
cut backReduce or curtail

lower · diminish · limit · shrink · pare down · scale back · trim · slash · cut · contract

downplay

understate

Express with restraint

trivialiseDiminish significance of
belittleTo make something seem unimportant
de-emphasizeMinimize perceived significance

underplay · soft-pedal · play down · diminish · downgrade · discount · talk down · gloss over · brush off · make light of

simplify

streamline

Remove unnecessary elements

declutterRemove unnecessary items
clarifyMake something understandable
distillPurify through vaporization

prune · refine · strip down · consolidate · eliminate · neaten · tidy · disentangle · unclutter · focus

Opposites

size/scale change

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Increasing to fullest extent

enlarging · expanding · increasing · magnifying · amplifying

emphasis/importance

minimisingmaximising

Increasing to fullest extent

exaggerating · emphasising · magnifying · amplifying · overstating

resource/effort allocation

minimisingmaximising

Increasing to fullest extent

intensifying · ramping up · optimising · increasing · boosting

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