Related Clues:

• Detach (from)
• Partly eat away
• Slowly reduce, as a cliff face
• Slip away, as support
• Gradually diminish
• Remove a dependency
• Diminish slowly
• Diminish over time
• Shrink in increments
• Grind down
• Gradually make independent (from)
• Chip away, as support
• Help to withdraw
• Shrink slowly
• Eat off the land?