belittle
/bɪˈlɪt.əl/ verb C1- To disparage, depreciate, or minimize the importance, value, merit, or significance of someone or something. · Don't belittle your colleagues.
- To make small.
He/she/it belittles · Past belittled · Past participle belittled · -ing form belittling
Verb forms
- Base form
- belittle
- He/she/it
- belittles
- Past
- belittled
- Past participle
- belittled
- -ing form
- belittling
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It was all very well for Anne, who was sure of passing at least, to have her moments of belittling them, but when your whole future depended on them--as the girls truly thought theirs did--you could not regard them philosophically.
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