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for decrease
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
232 Moby Thesaurus words for "decrease":
abate, abatement, abbreviate, abbreviation, ablate, ablation,
abrade, abridge, abstract, allay, alleviate, apportion, astriction,
astringency, attrition, bate, be eaten away, bottleneck, calibrate,
calibrated, cervix, circumscribe, circumscription, clip, close,
coarct, coarctation, compact, compactedness, compaction, compress,
compression, compressure, concentrate, concentration, condensation,
condense, consolidate, consolidation, constrict, constriction,
constringe, constringency, consume, consume away, consumption,
contract, contraction, contracture, corrode, count, cramp, crumble,
curtail, curtailment, cut, cut back, cut down, cutting, damp,
dampen, de-escalate, de-escalation, decline, decrement, deduct,
deflate, deliquesce, deplete, depletion, depreciate, depreciation,
depress, derogate, derogation, detract, detraction, die away,
differentiate, diminish, diminuendo, diminution, dip, disparage,
disparagement, dissipate, dissipation, dive, divide, downgrade,
drain, draw, draw in, draw together, dribble away, drop, drop off,
dwindle, dwindling, ease, ease off, ease up, eat away, ebb, erode,
erosion, evaporation, exhaustion, expenditure, extract, extraction,
fall, fall away, fall off, falling off, file away, fix,
gradational, grade, gradual, graduate, graduated, hierarchic,
hourglass, hourglass figure, impair, impairment, impoverishment,
increase, isthmus, knit, knitting, languish, leach, leakage,
lessen, lessening, let up, lighten, lower, lowering, measure,
melt away, mitigate, narrow, narrow place, narrowing, neck, number,
parcel, pare, peter out, plummet, plunge, progressive, pucker,
pucker up, puckering, purify, purse, pursing, quantify, quantize,
rate, rebate, recede, reduce, reduction, refine, regular,
remission, remove, retraction, retrench, retrenchment, roll back,
rub away, run low, sag, scalar, scale down, shade off, shorten,
shortening, shrink, shrinkage, shrinking, shrivel up, simplify,
sink, slacken, slackening, solidification, solidify, squander,
step down, strangle, stranglement, strangulate, strangulation,
striction, stricture, subduct, subside, subsidence, subtract,
systole, tail off, take away, take from, taper, taper off, thin,
thin out, trim, truncation, tune down, using, using up, wane,
wasp waist, wastage, waste, waste away, wear, wear away, wearing,
wearing away, weed, withdraw, wrinkle, wrinkling
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