Related Clues:
- Fish used to be caught — got fearfully small
- Engineers gave up and withdrew
- Troops gave up and retreated
- Used to be into fish -- withdrew
- Daughter, gasping for breath crossing line, faded
- Moved back from a previous position
- Declined gradually
- Say scaredy-cat shrank back
- Withdrew or diminished
- By the sound of it, poltroon looked fearful
- Recoiled in fear
- What old lawn needs to be, we hear? It's faded
- Dramatist, we hear, cringed
- Did quail or chicken, we hear
- Crouched in terror