diminishing

Strong matches

• condoning
• justifying
• lessening
• mitigating
• moderating
• palliating
• qualifying
• reducing
• sanitizing
• softening
• varnishing
• whitewashing

Strongest matches

• collapsing
• decreasing
• descending
• lowering
• plunging
• sliding
• tumbling
• weakening

Strong matches

• abating
• crumbling
• declining
• ebbing
• settling
• sinking
• slipping
• subsiding
• toppling
• tottering

Strong matches

• abating
• declining
• depreciating
• dropping
• dwindling
• ebbing
• lightening
• lowering
• moderating
• narrowing
• plummeting
• plunging
• quieting
• sagging
• shrinking
• sinking
• slackening
• slowing
• slumping
• softening
• subsiding
• waning
• wasting
• weakening

Weak matches

• dying down
• fading away
• losing momentum
• shriveling up
• wearing down
• wearing off

Strongest matches

• decrease
• deflation
• recession
• reduction
• shrinkage

Strong matches

• abbreviation
• abridgment
• compression
• condensation
• condensing
• confinement
• constriction
• curtailment
• diminution
• dwindling
• elision
• evaporation
• lessening
• narrowing
• omission
• receding
• reducing
• shrinking
• tightening
• withdrawal

Weak matches

• abbreviating
• abridging
• confining
• curtailing
• cutting down
• decreasing
• deflating
• drawing together
• evaporating
• lopping
• omitting
• shrivelling
• tensing
• withdrawing

Strong matches

• abbreviating
• compressing
• condensing
• contracting
• contraction
• decreasing
• dieting
• discounting
• downsizing
• lessening
• reduction
• shortening
• shrinking

Weak matches

• cutting down
• marking down
• paring down