- Abates
- Allays
- Alleviates
- Assuages
- Becomes less painful
- Carefully manoeuvres
- Comforts
- Fades from view
- Falls away
- Falls back
- Flows back
- Goes back
- Retreats
- Subsides
- demeans
- Drops
- Falls to the seafloor
- Founders
- Goes down
- Goes under
- Kiss randomly, hugging often ... finally falls slowly
- Dies away
- Dies down
- Dies down (of storm)
- Eases off
- Lessens
- Lessens in severity
- Lets up when a graduate faces setback
- Be returning by bus, overlooking University retreats
- Declines every baby boomer’s stated beginnings
- Draws back from ex-babes, oddly enough
- Flows back
- Goes out (of tide)
- Not old, bobsled falls apart and fades away
- Recedes