Decrease and Sap

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

• A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
• A person who lacks good judgment.
  • synonyms: fool, saphead, muggins, tomfool
• A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people.
  • synonyms: blackjack, cosh

verb

• Deplete.
  • usage: "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
  • synonyms: run down, exhaust, play out, tire
• Excavate the earth beneath. .

• (n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
• (v.i.) To proceed by mining or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
• (n.) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
• (v.t.) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
• (v.t.) To pierce with saps.
• (n.) The sapwood or alburnum, of a tree.
• (v.t.) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
• (n.) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

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