Diminished definition

Diminished means lessened in usefulness or significance with respect to a personal characteristic’s effect.

Examples of Diminished in a sentence

  • Schroecksnadel K, Fiegl M, Prassl K, Winkler C, Denz HA and Fuchs D: Diminished quality of life in patients with cancer correlates with tryptophan degradation.

  • O’Reilly, Losing Deference in the F.D.A.’s Second Century: Judicial Review, Politics, and a Diminished Legacy of Expertise, 93 Cornell L.

  • Recipient Survival and Graft Survival are Not Diminished by Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation: An Analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing Database.

Related to Diminished

  • Impaired means, with respect to a Class of Claims or Interests, a Class of Claims or Interests that is impaired within the meaning of section 1124 of the Bankruptcy Code.

  • Obstructive practice means materially impede the Bank’s or Government agencies investigation into allegations of one or more of the above mentioned prohibited practices either by deliberately destroying, falsifying, altering; or by concealing of evidence material to the investigation; or by making false statements to investigators and/or by threatening, harassing or intimidating any party to prevent it from disclosing its knowledge of matters relevant to the investigation or from pursuing the investigation; or by impeding the Bank’s rights of audit or access to information;

  • Significant means in reference to a net emissions increase or the potential of a source to emit any of the following pollutants, a rate of emissions that would equal or exceed any of the following rates:

  • Injury means accidental physical bodily harm excluding illness or disease solely and directly caused by external, violent and visible and evident means which is verified and certified by a Medical Practitioner.

  • Accident means a sudden, unforeseen and involuntary event caused by external, visible and violent means.

  • Impact means any effect caused by a proposed activity on the environment including human health and safety, flora, fauna, soil, air, water, climate, landscape and historical monuments or other physical structures or the interaction among these factors; it also includes effects on cultural heritage or socio-economic conditions resulting from alterations to those factors;