Meaning of mazināt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. second-person plural present indicative of mazināt
   form-of, indicative, plural, present, second-person
2. to reduce, to turn down (to make it so that, e.g., a phenomenon, a process, a mental state, etc., becomes less intense, weaker)
   transitive
3. to reduce (to make something be less in quantity or in amount)
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“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

“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

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