minify
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It's common to minify CSS and JavaScript files by removing whitespace and comments, renaming variables, and a few other tricks.
From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2013
III I here hesitate before a little adventure which I would not make too much of nor yet minify: it seems to me so gentle and winning.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean
Unless this fact be kept in mind, the influence of the Church upon Masonry, which no one seeks to minify, may easily be exaggerated.
From The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry by Newton, Joseph Fort
Her power did not absorb and minify; it enlarged, enlivened, and became a source of inspiration.
From Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" by Various
It has become a habit with some to make light of these grim and terrible facts, to minify the suffering experienced, or to try and impute the terrible condition to drink.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.