The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word EBBS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2019.
Diminishes crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| EBBS | 37 % | 4 |
| WANES | 16 % | 5 |
| ABATES | 12 % | 6 |
| LESSENS | 11 % | 7 |
| TAPERS | 5 % | 6 |
| FADES | 3 % | 5 |
| ERODES | 3 % | 6 |
| RECEDES | 3 % | 7 |
| PARES | 1 % | 5 |
| FALLS | 1 % | 5 |
| DECREASES | 1 % | 9 |
| REDUCES | 1 % | 7 |
| SLACKSOFF | 1 % | 9 |
| LETSUP | 1 % | 6 |
| DETRACTS | 1 % | 8 |
| LOWERS | 1 % | 6 |
| BATES | 1 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Diminishes
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- lessen
- decrease
- fall
- belittle
- affects
- alleviates
- ameliorates
- attenuates
- belittles
- constrains
- curtails
- cuts
Crossword Answer definitions
EBBS noun- The receding movement of the tide.
- A gradual decline.
- A low state; a state of depression.
- A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
- To flow back or recede
- To fall away or decline
- To fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
- To cause to flow back.
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 EBBS
More clues leading to the result WANES
More clues leading to the result ABATES
More clues leading to the result LESSENS
More clues leading to the result TAPERS
- Makes a V
- Grows pointy
- Comes to a point
- Gets narrower
- Comes to the point?
- Decreases, with "off"
- Narrows at one end
- Gradually reduces
- Items in sconces
- Narrows
More clues leading to the result FADES
- Drifts slowly away
- Loses color
- Loses luster
- Drops out of contention
- Is affected by sunlight, perhaps
- Loses stamina
- Disappears gradually
- Weakens
- Vanishes into thin air
- Loses brightness
More clues leading to the result ERODES
- Wears away
- Chips away at
- Eats away at
- Eats away
- Eats at
- Washes away
- Wears down
- Creates ravines
- Creates, as a gorge
- Undermines
More clues leading to the result RECEDES
More clues leading to the result PARES
- Readies potatoes
- Skins
- Removes the covering
- Shaves off
- Whittles down
- Cuts drastically
- Peels
- Cuts back
- Trims
- Cuts back on
More clues leading to the result FALLS
- Drops
- Topples
- Comes a cropper
- Horseshoe, e.g.
- Kayaker's worry
- Some hair extensions
- Idaho ___, Idaho
- Wrestling rounds
- Hairpieces
- Collapses
More clues leading to the result DECREASES
More clues leading to the result REDUCES
- Diets
- Lowers
- Puts "on sale"
- Dwindles.
- Diminishes.
- Lessens
- Solves a "weighty" problem
- Gets lighter
- Cooks down, as a sauce
- Trims back
More clues leading to the result SLACKSOFF
More clues leading to the result LETSUP
- Abates
- Relaxes a bit
- Stops, as rain
- Slackens
- Backs off
- Goes from a downpour to a drizzle
- Diminishes
- Rains less intensely
- Relents
- Eases
More clues leading to the result DETRACTS
- Takes away
- Takes away (from)
- Diverts
- Draws attention away
- Takes credit from.
- Takes something desirable away.
- Disparages (with "from").
- Takes away a part.
- Takes away (from).
- Takes from
More clues leading to the result LOWERS
- Lets down
- Brings down
- Reduces
- Diminishes
- Looks sullen
- Drops, as prices
- Dims
- Reduces, as prices
- Train accommodations.
- Demeans.