diminish vs boil down

boil down vs diminish

diminish and boil down both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
diminish	No	No	Yes	No
boil down	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, boil down is a hyponym of diminish; that is, boil down is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than diminish:

diminish: decrease in size, extent, or range
boil down: be cooked until very little liquid is left

Other hyponyms of diminish include break, shrink, shrivel, taper, drop off, fly, vanish, vaporize, break, ease off, ease up, flag, slacken off, weaken, concentrate, decoct, reduce, contract, shrink, shrink, shrivel, shrivel up, wither, abate, die away, let up, slack, slack off, deflate, dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down, remit, de-escalate, depreciate, devaluate, devalue, undervalue, shorten, thin out, decline, go down, wane, wane, wane, decelerate, retard, slow, slow down, slow up, decrescendo.

diminish (verb)	boil down (verb)
decrease in size, extent, or range	cook until very little liquid is left
lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of	be cooked until very little liquid is left
	be the essential element

Difference between diminish and boil down

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