Decrease and Remission

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.

noun

• An abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease. )
  • usage: "his cancer is in remission"
  • synonyms: remittal, subsidence
• A payment of money sent to a person in another place.
  • synonyms: remittance, remittal, remitment
• Law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court. ()
  • synonyms: remitment, remit
• The act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance.
  • synonyms: absolution, remittal, remission of sin

• (n.) Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.
• (n.) The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning or giving up.
• (n.) A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.
• (n.) Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.
• (n.) The act of sending back.
• (n.) Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.