N. decrease, diminution,
lessening,
subtraction, reduction,
abatement,
declension,
shrinking, coarctation|,
abridgment,
extenuation,
subsidence,
wane,
ebb, decline,
ebbing, descent, decrement,
reflux,
depreciation,
deterioration,
anticlimax,
mitigation V. decrease, diminish,
lessen,
abridge,
shrink, drop off, fall off, tail off, fall away, waste, wear,
wane,
ebb, decline, descend,
subside, melt away, die away, retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low,
languish, decay,
crumble,
bate,
abate, dequantitate|, discount,
depreciate,
extenuate, lower,
weaken,
attenuate, fritter away,
mitigate,
dwarf, throw into the shade, reduce,
shorten,
subtract Adj. unincreased &c. (see increase ), decreased, decreasing, on the wane
Phr. "a gilded halo hovering round decay", "fine by degrees and beautifully less", 3, conjunctive quantity
N. descent,
descension, # declension, declination, fall, falling,
slump, drop,
plunge,
plummet,
cadence,
subsidence,
collapse,
lapse,
downfall,
tumble, slip,
tilt,
trip,
lurch,
cropper, culbute,
titubation,
stumble, fate of icarus,
avalanche,
debacle,
landslip,
landslide,
declivity, dip, hill,
rappel V. descend, go down, drop down, come down, fall,
gravitate, drop, slip, slide,
rappel, settle,
plunge,
plummet,
crash, decline, set, sink,
droop, come down a peg,
slump, dismount,
alight, light, get down,
swoop,
stoop, fall prostrate, precipitate oneself, let fall,
tumble,
trip,
stumble,
titubate,
lurch, pitch,
swag,
topple, topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down,
tilt,
sprawl, plump down, come down a cropper
Phr. the bottom fell out
