| means | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
fall, decrease, diminish, lessen |
| means | (verb) become smaller; "Interest in his novels waned"
wane |
| means | (verb) become smaller or lose substance; "Her savings dwindled down"
dwindle, dwindle down, dwindle away |
| means | (verb) become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
shrink, contract |
| means | (verb) decrease in phase; "the moon is waning"
wane |
| means | (verb) grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"
wane, decline, go down |
| means | (verb) fall or diminish; "The number of students in this course dropped off after the first test"
drop off |
| means | (verb) go down in value; "Stock prices dropped"
drop |
| means | (verb) diminish gradually; "Interested tapered off"
taper |
| means | (verb) grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened"
worsen, decline |
| means | (verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"
shrivel up, wither, shrivel, shrink |
| means | (verb) make smaller; "He decreased his staff"
lessen, minify, decrease |
| means | (verb) decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
shrivel, shrink |
| means | (verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; "She buys for the big department store"
purchase, buy |
| means | (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated"
break, crack, check |
| means | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; "don't belittle your colleagues"
belittle, diminish |
| means | (verb) place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses"
misplace, mislay, lose |
| means | (verb) decrease gradually or bit by bit
pare, pare down |
| means | (verb) make slender or appear to be slender; "slenderizing skirts"
slenderise, slenderize |
| means | (verb) fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"
lose |
| means | (verb) change from one level to another; "She dropped into army jargon"
drop |
| means | (verb) alight from (a horse)
get down, unhorse, get off, light, dismount |
| means | (verb) reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
reduce, shrink |
| means | (verb) 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"
deplete, wipe out, run through, exhaust, use up, eat, eat up, consume |
| means | (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"
consider, believe, think, conceive |
| means | (verb) wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"
subside, lessen |
| means | (verb) make less active or intense
slake, slack, abate |
| means | (verb) turn into curds; "curdled milk"
clabber, curdle, clot |
| means | (verb) lose thickness; become thin or thinner
thin |
| means | (verb) take off weight
slim, melt off, slenderize, lose weight, thin, slim down, reduce |