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The art of having less than you used to, quietly or catastrophically.
means To become or make smaller in size, number, or intensity over time.
from From Latin decrescere, to grow down, the gloomy twin of increase that built crescendo and crescent moon.
Moon rootsShares Latin crescere with crescent and crescendo.
Math signNegative slopes are decreasing functions, falling left to right.
Stress shiftNoun stresses first syllable, verb the second.