To tone down; to make less emphatic or significant; to downplay.
To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.
To effect mincingly.
To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.
To make less; to make small.
To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).
Finely chopped meat; minced meat.
An eye (from mince pie).
Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.