dwindling, diminishing, declining, decreasing, eroding, increasing, stagnating, shriveling, growing, depleting, rising, expanding, disappearing, evaporating, plummeting, enlarging, vanishing, hemorrhaging, deteriorating, sagging, fragmenting, slowing, weakening, squeezing, worsening, downsizing, ballooning, mushrooming, burgeoning, bulging, disintegrating, falling, graying, multiplying, plunging, lagging, accelerating, narrowing, escalating, exploding, slumping, replenishing, thinning, constricted, outstripping, soaring, hollowing, decimated, booming, ebbing, deceasing, receding, swelled, reduced, crumbling, waning, shifting, broadening, slimmed, straining, imploding, collapsing, intensifying, trimming, souring, lengthening, mounting, proliferating, decelerating, faltering, retrenching, cutting, surging, diversifying, reshaping, atrophying, deepening, halving, dropping, encroaching, fading, quintupling, whittling, constrained, doubling, outpace, changing, boosting, overpopulated, slackening, aging, overtaxed, softening, widening, slashed, crimping, tripling, ramping, darkening, draining, gobbling, spiraling, timidity, hesitancy, lessening, uneasiness, diminution, repugnance, retrogression, tightening, amelioration, feebleness, debility, disinclination, shrinkage, alteration, blurring, lightening, quickening, reluctance

compression, condensation, contraction, miniaturisation, miniaturization

automatic, contractility, fuller's earth, proof, unblinking, unflinching, unintimidated, unshrinking

decrease, drop-off, reduction, step-down