Thus, increase is clustered with other calibratable change-of-state verbs, such as climb, decline, decrease, diminish, drop, fall, fluctuate, gain, rise, and vary, but breathe is not, clustering instead with bleed, cough, cry, dribble, drool, sweat, and vomit (known as the Breathe subclass of the major class Verbs of bodily processes), Levin 1993 [1] 217 218).
Enter the new fallen sadly diminished McCain.
Physiological factors that are correlated with falls are diminished proprioception in the lower limbs and slower reaction time.
It is a common, intrusive feature of Parkinsonian disorders, which causes falls and diminishes quality of life (Giladi et al., 2001; Moore et al., 2007; Kerr et al., 2010).
The middle-aged face falling real wages and diminished pension rights.
It has merely amplified economic ailments that are now intensifying: vanishing paychecks, falling home prices and diminished spending.
The covenant holds that when an athlete prevails, we prevail; when he or she falls short, we're diminished too.
Which, as media historians hasten to assure us, is an enviable form of power, however diminished by falling circulations and the rush to cyberspace.
Brazil's main inflation rate slowed to a 15-month low in February, diminished by falling prices for food staples like beans and chicken.
That is an arresting thesis, even if it somewhat understates the extent to which previous promoters of American nationalism from Teddy Roosevelt to Reagan himself also played on fears that the United States was falling behind or otherwise diminished.
