| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | The act or process of becoming less active or intense: abatement, ebb, letup, remission, slackening, subsidence. See INCREASE. | | VERB: | 1. To lose strength or power: decline, degenerate, deteriorate, fade, fail, flag2, languish, sink, waste (away), weaken. Informal : fizzle (out). Idioms: go downhill, hit the skids. See INCREASE, STRONG. 2. To become or cause to become less active or intense: abate, bate, die (away, down, off, or out), ease (off or up), ebb, fall, fall off, lapse, let up, moderate, remit, slacken, slack off, subside. See INCREASE.
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