Decrease and Depart

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

verb

• Move away from a place into another direction.
  • usage: "Go away before I start to cry"; "The train departs at noon"
  • synonyms: go, go away
• Be at variance with; be out of line with.
  • synonyms: deviate, vary, diverge
• Leave.
  • usage: "The family took off for Florida"
  • synonyms: part, start, start out, set forth, set off, set out, take off
• Go away or leave.
  • synonyms: take leave, quit
• Remove oneself from an association with or participation in.
  • usage: "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"
  • synonyms: leave, pull up stakes
• Wander from a direct or straight course.
  • synonyms: sidetrack, digress, straggle

• (v.i.) To quit this world; to die.
• (v.i.) To part; to divide; to separate.
• (n.) A going away; departure; hence, death.
• (v.t.) To leave; to depart from.
• (v.t.) To divide in order to share; to apportion.
• (v.i.) To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading.
• (v.t.) To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate.
• (v.i.) To pass away; to perish.
• (v.i.) To go forth or away; to quit, leave or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; -- opposed to arrive; -- often with from before the place, person or thing left, and for or to before the destination.
• (n.) Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients.