minimized
UK spellingminimised
- 1Simple past and past participle of minimize.
The company minimized its costs by switching to a cheaper supplier.
Risks were minimized through careful planning before the launch.
Note
One spelling does double duty: the simple past (the company minimized its costs) and the past participle that follows have or be. Every sense of minimize takes an object, so the participle forms passives freely: risks were minimized, a window was minimized to an icon. It also sits before a noun as an adjective, as in a minimized window or minimized losses. Only the surrounding words tell the past tense from the participle.
minimized is a form of minimize
minimize, verb: To make something smaller or reduce it to the lowest possible amount or degree. Full entry
- Forms
- minimizeminimizes he/she/itminimizing -ing formminimized past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- minimize → minimized: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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