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sliding collapse: being a smooth continuous motion

shrinkage collapse: the amount by which something shrinks

drying collapse

slipping collapse: moving as on a slippery surface; "his slipping and slithering progress over the ice"

thinning collapse

disintegrating collapse

decadent collapse: a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically); marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"

retrogressive collapse

falling collapse: becoming lower or less in degree or value; "a falling market"; "falling incomes"; decreasing in amount or degree; "falling temperature"

regressive collapse: opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state; (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases

waning collapse: a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent; "the waning of his enthusiasm was obvious"; "the waxing and waning of the moon"; (of the moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases; "after full moon comes the waning moon"

subsiding collapse

crumbling collapse

pining collapse: a feeling of deep longing

dwindling collapse: a becoming gradually less; "there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family"; gradually decreasing until little remains

retrograde collapse: of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma; moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth; going from better to worse; go back over; "retrograde arguments"; move back; "The glacier retrogrades"; move in a direction contrary to the usual one; "retrograding planets"; move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies

draining collapse: having a debilitating effect; "an exhausting job in the hot sun"

worsening collapse: changing something with the result that it becomes worse; changing for the worse; "worried by the worsening storm"

shrinking collapse: the act of becoming less; process or result of becoming less or smaller; "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage"

withering collapse

declining collapse

flagging collapse: a walk of flagstones; "the flagging in the garden was quite imaginative"; flagstones collectively; "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place"

consumption collapse: the act of consuming something; the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating); (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"

fading collapse

effete collapse

drooping collapse: hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness); weak from exhaustion

atrophy collapse: any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use); a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse; undergo atrophy; "Muscles that are not used will atrophy"

wasting collapse

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