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demotion collapse: act of lowering in rank or position

wither collapse

soothe collapse: cause to feel better; "the medicine soothes the pain of the inflammation"

totter collapse: move without being stable, as if threatening to fall; "The drunk man tottered over to our table"

teeter totter collapse

melt away collapse

twilight collapse: the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth; a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight of the empire"; the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"

drop off collapse: fall or diminish; "The number of students in this course dropped off after the first test"

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"

go away collapse

teeter collapse: move unsteadily, with a rocking motion

languish collapse: become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

get over collapse: to bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end; "Let's get this job over with"; "It's a question of getting over an unpleasant task"

moribund collapse: being on the point of death; breathing your last; "a moribund patient"

molder collapse

back and fill collapse

subsiding collapse

soar collapse: the act of rising upward into the air; go or move upward; "The stock market soared after the cease-fire was announced"; fly upwards or high in the sky; rise rapidly; "the dollar soared against the yen"

deadlock collapse: a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the negotiations"

ease off collapse

shuttle collapse: bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads; public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points; travel back and forth between two points

lessening collapse

ascend collapse: travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"; slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"; go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"; become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"; go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"

rotate collapse: plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"; perform a job or duty on a rotating basis; "Interns have to rotate for a few months"; cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle"; exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano every night"

die away collapse

waver collapse: the act of moving back and forth; someone who communicates by waving; sway to and fro

involution collapse: the action of enfolding something; a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction; reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)

vacillate collapse

ablate collapse: remove an organ or bodily structure; wear away through erosion or vaporization

peter out collapse

fall away collapse

bate collapse: soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins"; flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons; moderate or restrain; lessen the force of; "He bated his breath when talking about this affair"; "capable of bating his enthusiasm"

go down collapse: be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"; be ingested; "This wine sure goes down well"; "The food wouldn't go down"; be recorded or remembered; "She will go down as the first feminist"

downturn collapse: a worsening of business or economic activity; "the market took a downturn"

let up collapse

get on collapse: appear in a show, on T.V. or radio; "The news won't be on tonight"; grow late or (of time) elapse; "It is getting on midnight--let's all go to bed!"

fall off collapse: diminish in size or intensity; come off; "This button had fallen off"

plummet collapse: drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted"

regress collapse: the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence; get worse or fall back to a previous condition; go back to a statistical means

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