Decrease and Drown

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

• Cover completely or make imperceptible.
  • usage: "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"
  • synonyms: submerge, overwhelm
• Get rid of as if by submerging.
  • usage: "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"
• Die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating.
  • usage: "The child drowned in the lake"
• Kill by submerging in water.
  • usage: "He drowned the kittens"
• Be covered with or submerged in a liquid.
  • usage: "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy"
  • synonyms: swim

• (v.t.) To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
• (v.i.) To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
• (v.t.) To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.
• (v.t.) To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.