| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | The act or process of decreasing: abatement, curtailment, cut, cutback, decrease, decrement, diminishment, diminution, drain, reduction, slash, slowdown. See INCREASE. | | VERB: | To grow or cause to grow gradually less. Also used with off: abate, decrease, diminish, drain, dwindle, ebb, lessen, let up, peter (out), rebate, reduce, tail away or (off). See INCREASE.
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