mazināt

From mazs (“small”) +‎ -ināt.

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mazināt

1. second-person plural present indicative of mazināt

mazināt (transitive, 3rd conjugation, present mazinu, mazini, mazina, past mazināju)

1. to reduce, to turn down (to make it so that, e.g., a phenomenon, a process, a mental state, etc., becomes less intense, weaker)

   mazināt troksni ― to reduce the noise

   mazināt gaismas spilgtumu ― to turn down the brightness of the light

   mazināt ātrumu ― to reduce the speed

   mazināt prieku, sāpes ― to reduce the joy, the pain

   mazināt gribas spēku ― to reduce the will power

   mazināt negatīvo ietekmi ― to reduce the negative influence

   atpakaļceļā debesis pamazām aizklāj pelēki mākoņi, bet tas karstumu nemazina ― on the way back, gray clouds had covered some of the sky, but this didn't reduce the heat

   paslepeni iebāzu mutē cukura graudiņu, lai mazinātu šī dārgā vīna skābumu ― I secretly put in (my) mouth a sugar cube, in order to reduce the acidity of this expensive wine

2. to reduce (to make something be less in quantity or in amount)

   mazināt zāļu devu ― to reduce the medicine dose

   mazināt ūdens patēriņu ― to reduce water consumption

   gads pēc gads aizritēja, un parāds palika nemazināts ― year after year went by, and the debt remained unreduced

• mazinātājs, mazinātāja
• pamazināt
• samazināt