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ebb, ebbing, wane

n. a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

ebb

v. fall away or decline; "The patient's strength ebbed away"

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low, ebb

adj. less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low"

decay, decline

n. a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency

n. lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"

force, forcefulness, strength

n. physical energy or intensity; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"

indentation

n. the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions

crash, collapse

n. a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)

turkey, bomb, dud

n. an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"

bankruptcy, failure

n. inability to discharge all your debts as they come due; "the company had to declare bankruptcy"; "fraudulent loans led to the failure of many banks"

die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it

v. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

worsen, decline

v. grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"

fade, melt

v. become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly; "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"

subside, lessen

v. wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"

wane

v. decrease in phase; "the moon is waning"

taper off

v. become smaller or less active; "Business tapered off"

drain, run out

v. flow off gradually; "The rain water drains into this big vat"

dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down

v. become smaller or lose substance; "Her savings dwindled down"

bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolour, decolorize, decolourize, decolorise, decolourise, discolorize, discolourise, discolorise

v. remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt"

languish, fade

v. become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

shrink, shrivel

v. decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"

taper

v. diminish gradually; "Interested tapered off"

fade, wither

v. lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading"

waste, waste away, diminish

v. become diminished

subside, settle

v. sink down or precipitate; "the mud subsides when the waters become calm"

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tide, surge

v. rise or move forward; "surging waves"

flood, high

adj. greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "a high temperature"; "a high price"; "the high point of his career"; "high risks"; "has high hopes"; "the river is high"; "he has a high opinion of himself"

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