- Debilitates
- Diminishes
- Enervates
- Lessens
- Makes less powerful
- Saps
- Undermines
- Abates
- Allays
- Alleviates
- Assuages
- Becomes less painful
- Carefully manoeuvres
- Comforts
- Dies away
- Dies down
- Dies down (of storm)
- Eases off
- Lessens
- Lessens in severity
- Lets up when a graduate faces setback