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Definition:
- [verb] decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fall to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
Synonyms: decrease, diminish, fall
- [verb] make smaller; "He decreased his staff"
Synonyms: decrease, minify
- [verb] wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"
Synonyms: subside
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Related Words:
- break
- shrink, shrivel
- taper
- drop off
- vanish, fly, vaporize
- break
- ease up, ease off, slacken off, flag
- weaken
- boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrate
- shrink, contract
- shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, wither
- abate, let up, slack off, slack, die away
- deflate
- dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down
- remit
- de-escalate
- depreciate, undervalue, devaluate, devalue
- shorten
- thin out
- decline, go down, wane
- wane
- wane
- decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard
- decrescendo
- mitigate
- pare, pare down
- limit, circumscribe, confine
- reduce, boil down, concentrate
- shrink, reduce
- abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce
- slake, abate, slack
- turn down, lower, lour
- de-escalate, weaken, step down
- minimize, minimise
- reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down
- cut
- slack, slacken, slack up, relax
- diminish, belittle
