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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"

exit, go, die, decease, expire, pass away, perish, pip out

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

run through, exhaust, wipe out, consume, deplete, run out of, use up, eat into

v. use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

degenerate, deteriorate, fall apart

v. become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated"

block, stop, halt, kibosh, put the kibosh on

v. stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"

scorch, parch, sear

v. cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat; "The sun parched the earth"

dehydrate, desicate, dessicate, dry up

v. lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly"

scorch, singe, swinge, burn superficially

v. burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling"

shrink, reduce

v. reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"

decay

v. undergo decay or decomposition; "The body started to decay and needed to be cremated"

press, squeeze, contract, compress, compact, constrict, press together, squeeze together

v. squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"

pinch, crimp

v. make ridges into by pinching together

reduce, deoxidize, deoxidise, remove oxygen from

v. to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons

stoop, crouch, bow, bend down

v. bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"

duck, move up and down

v. to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away; "Before he could duck, another stone struck him"

wince, flinch, quail, squinch, recoil, shrink, funk, cringe

v. draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

dry, dry out, become dry

v. become dry or drier; "The laundry dries in the sun"

blot, dry with blotting paper

v. dry (ink) with blotting paper

waste, languish, waste away, pine away

v. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"

wilt, lose strength

v. lose strength; "My opponent was wilting"

purse, wrinkle

v. gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker; "purse ones's lips"

flag, swag, sag, droop, loll

v. droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

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blow up, inflate, fill with air, fill with gas

v. become inflated; "The sails ballooned"

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