verb
narrow, lessen, thin out, thin down, reduce, whittle down, grow less, taper off; see also decrease 1, 2.
Antonyms increase*, thicken, expand.
See taper in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
The act or process of decreasing:
To grow or cause to grow gradually less.
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