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To become smaller or less important, or to make something so.

verb

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diminish

The noise began to diminish as the audience left the hall.
Dictionary practice example.
The depot expects the pile of waiting parcels to diminish as the restored sorting shifts process more items than new deliveries add.
From Changes in Intensity.
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