- Dissolute Ned was let out
- Reduced tightness
- Slackened
- of Loosen
- Abated
- Abated (of storm)
- Alleviated
- appeasing
- Assuaged
- Comforted
- Decreased
- Declined a bat with Ed
- Declined first dance after sailor scoffed
- Died away
- Died down (of storm)
- Diminished
- Drew back from Alfred Tennyson initially in a bed
- Eased off