The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ABATE , but the solution may also be WANE which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in Universal uClick).
Diminish crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ABATE | 28 % | 5 |
| BATE | 17 % | 4 |
| WANE | 14 % | 4 |
| EBB | 12 % | 3 |
| LESSEN | 9 % | 6 |
| ERODE | 4 % | 5 |
| FADE | 3 % | 4 |
| PARE | 3 % | 4 |
| LETUP | 2 % | 5 |
| TAPER | 2 % | 5 |
| RECEDE | 1 % | 6 |
| IMPAIR | 1 % | 6 |
| SHRINK | 1 % | 6 |
| SINK | 0 % | 4 |
| DAMPEN | 0 % | 6 |
| CUT | 0 % | 3 |
| DEPLETE | 0 % | 7 |
| CROP | 0 % | 4 |
| DECREASE | 0 % | 8 |
| CUTINTO | 0 % | 7 |
| REDUCE | 0 % | 6 |
| FLAG | 0 % | 4 |
| POOHPOOH | 0 % | 8 |
| TAPEROFF | 0 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Diminish
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- lessen
- decrease
- belittle
- fall
- reduce
- weaken
- undermine
- erode
- degrade
- curtail
- detract
- eliminate
Crossword Answer definitions
ABATE noun- Abatement.
- (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease.
- To become null and void.
- To nullify; make void.
- To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
- To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
- To curtail; to deprive.
- To reduce in amount, size, or value.
- To decrease in size, value, or amount.
- To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
- To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.
- To deduct or omit.
- To bar or except.
- To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.
- To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.
- To destroy, or level to the ground.
- To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.
- An Italian abbot, or other member of the clergy.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result ABATE
More clues leading to the result BATE
- Ease
- Restrain
- Subside
- Diminish
- Decrease
- Lessen
- Moderate
- Make less intense
- Hold back, as breath
- Lessen in intensity
More clues leading to the result WANE
- Wax counterpart
- Decrease
- Ease off
- Slack off
- Wax's counterpart
- Decline
- Alternative to wax
- Begin to fade
- Diminish
- Draw to a close
More clues leading to the result EBB
More clues leading to the result LESSEN
- Diminish
- Abate
- Ebb
- Cut down on auditor's classroom assignment (6)
- Ease up, as pressure
- Pull back
- Subside
- Cut back
- Mitigate
- Let up
More clues leading to the result ERODE
- Diminish
- Slowly destroy
- Wear away
- Whittle away
- Diminish gradually
- Fade gradually
- Grind down
- Rust
- Wear down
- Diminish by degrees
More clues leading to the result FADE
- Grow dimmer
- Lose color
- Weaken
- Disappear
- Hi-top haircut
- Become indistinct
- Scene ender
- Conclusion to some songs
- Curving golf shot
- Die off toward the end
More clues leading to the result PARE
- Cut (down), as expenses
- Get the carrots ready
- Cut back
- Trim
- Whittle down
- Fix apples for a pie
- Skin
- Trim down
- Remove the skin of
- Cut the skin from
More clues leading to the result LETUP
More clues leading to the result TAPER
- Thin candle
- Candle
- Reduce gradually
- Dwindle down
- Trail (off)
- Get to the point?
- Wicked light?
- Recorder at a gig
- Come to nothing?
- Decrease gradually
More clues leading to the result RECEDE
- Withdraw
- Go back
- Fall back
- Ebb
- Retreat, like a hairline
- Move back
- Reveal more forehead
- Subside
- Move away
- Give ground gradually
More clues leading to the result IMPAIR
- Diminish
- Render dysfunctional
- Do damage to
- Weaken
- Damage
- Make worse
- Injure
- Diminish, as ability
- Hamper
- Get in the way of
More clues leading to the result SHRINK
- His clients frequently lie
- Get smaller
- Psychologist, slangily
- Head doctor
- Psychiatrist
- What pupils do in bright light
- Downsize
- Analyst
- Draw up
- Reduce in size
More clues leading to the result SINK
- Drop down
- Bathroom basin
- Smell skunky
- Make, as a putt
- Basement fixture, sometimes
- Get sent down to the lower leagues?
- Laundry room fixture
- Site for soap
- Kitchen fixture
- Bathroom fixture
More clues leading to the result DAMPEN
More clues leading to the result CUT
- Kick off the team
- "This take is garbage"
- Song, as it were
- Sporting a six-pack, say
- Director's cry
- Share
- "Stop shooting!"
- Edit menu word
- Movie release
- Slice
More clues leading to the result DEPLETE
More clues leading to the result CROP
- Harvest haul
- Rider's whip
- Trim
- Farmer's concern
- Riding whip
- Trim a hedge or photograph
- Jockey's whip
- __-duster (kind of airplane)
- Cut short
- Cut, as an ex-friend from a picture
More clues leading to the result DECREASE
More clues leading to the result CUTINTO
More clues leading to the result REDUCE
- Minimize
- Cut down to size
- Knock off
- Slim down
- Boil down
- Discount
- Be a good loser?
- Diet
- Turn down
- Lower in degree
More clues leading to the result FLAG
- Lose strength
- Piece of bunting
- Jolly Roger, for one
- Masthead
- Ref's dropping
- Begin to droop
- Stratego piece
- Waver in the wind
- One posted outside an embassy
- Embassy adornment
More clues leading to the result POOHPOOH
- Belittle
- Dismiss lightly
- Express disdain for
- Dismiss out of hand
- Make light of
- Dismiss
- Make light of.
- Deride.
- Diminish
- Deprecate