diminish vs ease up

ease up vs diminish

diminish and ease up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
diminish	No	No	Yes	No
ease up	No	No	Yes	No

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

diminish: decrease in size, extent, or range
ease up: become less intense

Other hyponyms of diminish include break, shrink, shrivel, taper, drop off, fly, vanish, vaporize, break, ease off, flag, slacken off, weaken, boil down, 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)	ease up (verb)
decrease in size, extent, or range	become less intense
lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of	reduce pressure or intensity
	move in order to make room for someone for something

Difference between diminish and ease up

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