decrease

decrease
v
1. diminish, lessen, reduce, lower, abate, bate; contract, shrink, constrict, narrow; cut, pare, prune, truncate, crop, lop, dock, clip; condense, cut down, compress, shorten, abridge, scale down, boil down; abbreviate, curtail, cut short.
2. mitigate, alleviate, allay, assuage, Rare. lenify, palliate; quell, slake, deaden, dull, blunt, take the edge off of; modify, temper, qualify; minimize, extenuate, make light of, soft-pedal, play down, downplay.
3. subside, ebb, recede, retrocede; dwindle, Inf. peter out; slacken, let up, wind down, slow down, de-escalate; fall off, taper off, wane, fade away, die out.
n
4. diminution, reduction, lessening, diminishing, decrement, abatement, retrenchment, cutback; contraction, shrinking, shrinkage, constriction, constricting, narrowing; condensation, compression, shortening, abridgment, abbreviation, curtailment.
5. mitigation, alleviation, assuagement, palliation; quelling, relieving, easing, softening; loosening, relaxation, slackening.
6. subsidence, ebb, recession; decline, downturn, drop-off, fall-off, declension, decrescence, wane; sinking, falling off, fading away, dwindling, dying out; weakening, attenuation, loss, attrition, wearing away, erosion, wasting away; retardation, slowdown, deescalation.

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