MINIMIZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does minimized mean? 

• MINIMIZED (adjective)
  The adjective MINIMIZED has 1 sense:

1. reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree

  Familiarity information: MINIMIZED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINIMIZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree

Similar:

decreased; reduced (made less in size or amount or degree)

 Context examples 

The smaller ozone hole in 2017 was strongly influenced by an unstable and warmer circulation pattern in the Antarctic stratosphereoffsite link that minimized the formation of high-altitude clouds.

(Warmth in the Antarctic stratosphere helped limit the size of the ozone hole in 2017 to the smallest observed since 1988, NOAA)