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What does belittle mean?

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  1. (derogatory) To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is. [from 1782]
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I have learnt never to underestimate the worth of young people, nor to ridicule or belittle them.
He does not dismiss or belittle the gifts and talents that his Creator endowed to him.
It galled him that soldiers had driven so hard to penetrate the city, only to have a buffoon in a beret belittle them to the world.
If you belittle their opinions or dismiss their problems, they'll stop talking to you.
The papers go out of their way to misgender and belittle, replacing every correct gender reference with one that seems calculated to humiliate.
In ignorance, they seek to belittle it and minimise its importance to the individual.

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