A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
An honor is not diminished for being shared.
Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.
'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.
The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
