increase

reducing, decreasing, diminishing, minimizing, increasing, easing, alleviating, lowering, curbing, curtailing, relieving, heightening, eliminating, greater, dampening, limiting, lessoned, mitigating, boosting, blunting, bolstering, minimal, avoiding, exacerbating, improving, diminution, counteracting, removing, enhancing, broadening, reduction, tempering, weakening, eroding, outweighed, attenuating, deterring, ameliorate, undermining, strengthening, softening, preventing, narrowing, averting, undercutting, elevating, dulling, maximizing, offsetting, negligible, reversing, stanching, forestalling, diffusing, allaying, wane, neutralizing, intensifying, shortening, slowing, loosening, countering, dissipating, counterbalancing, consequent, stabilizing, significant, considerable, abate, moderating, engendering, spurring, magnifies, muting, assuaging, reinforcing, deceasing, negate, diluting, remedying, squelching, enlarging, augmenting, upping, denting, persisting, quelling, shifting, impairing, worsening, sparing, higher, defusing, obviate, expediting, ratcheting, accentuating, substantial, furthering, lengthening, ridding, lighten, slackening, increase, curtailment, decrease, lightening, widening, amelioration, blurring, decline, slowdown, deterioration, improvement, rise, tightening, abatement, everincreasing, appreciable, equal, inappreciable, prodigious, variable, calculable, disconcerting, greatest, large, maximal, rotational, small, unmanageable, astonishing

attrition, casualty, dwindling, dwindling away, shrinkage, shrinking, sinking, waning

dent, moderating, moderation, remit, slacken

alteration, change, modification

drop-off