- Abate
- Become distant like sort of decree
- Drop back
- Ebb
- Fall away
- Fall back
- Flow back
- A fishing lure heard to subside
- Before half-term, a graduate will ease off
- Change a beat to taper off
- Die away
- Die down
- Die down (of storm)
- Diminish
- Become smaller and smaller
- decrease in amount or intensity
- Diminish
- Diminish gradually
- Diminish or decline
- Diminish or shrink gradually
- Gradually diminish
- ... and flow
- And not
- Be back before first outgoing tide
- Bea! Be back or fall back!
- Decline sea change?
- Depressed, at a low ...
- diminution
- Ebbed
- Fell back
- Flowed back
- Sloped backward
- Went back
- of Recede