minimized

But my strategic side reminds me: If history truly didn’t matter, it wouldn’t be continuously minimized, rewritten, whitewashed.

Still, at the time of the January fires, the semi-deciduous trees had not yet flowered, which likely minimized the damage they suffered.

The news was no less a shock to Jackson, who thought the language of the commutation minimized Martinez’s role in concocting the kidnapping plan that led to the murder.

At graduation ceremonies outdoor lines to enter venues are to be minimized.

From Grover Cleveland to John F. Kennedy and Donald Trump, examples abound of presidential maladies being minimized or kept secret.