WAXES Antonyms

• change toward something smaller or lower

• a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline

• a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

• a downward slope or bend

• grow worse

• not accept as true

• show unwillingness towards

• grow smaller

• go down

• fall in value

• inflect for number, gender, case, etc.

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of

• a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

• the outward flow of the tide

• flow back or recede

• hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb

• fall away or decline

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• make become smaller

• wear off or die down

• pull back or move away or backward

• retreat

• become faint or more distant

• cut down on; make a reduction in

• make less complex

• bring to humbler or weaker state or condition

• simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another

• lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation

• be the essential element

• reduce in size; reduce physically

• lessen and make more modest

• make smaller

• to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons

• narrow or limit

• put down by force or intimidation

• undergo meiosis

• reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site

• destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• be cooked until very little liquid is left

• cook until very little liquid is left

• lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

• take off weight

• a physician who specializes in psychiatry

• wither, as with a loss of moisture

• draw back, as with fear or pain

• reduce in size; reduce physically

• become smaller or draw together

• decrease in size, range, or extent

• wear off or die down

• sink to a lower level or form a depression

• sink down or precipitate

• descend into or as if into some soft substance or place

• a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

• grow smaller

• become smaller

• decrease in phase

• lessen the strength of

• become weaker

• destroy property or hinder normal operations

• reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of

• lessen in force or effect

• a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

• grow smaller

• become smaller

• decrease in phase