Related Clues:

• Wear down
• Disassemble naturally
• Lose brilliance
• Disintegrate
• Fall off, as popularity
• Lose brightness
• Die
• Taper
• Backward-moving basketball shot
• Subject to ablation
• Lose underpinnings, e.g.
• Do poorly in the stretch
• Slowly lose ground
• Go dim
• Lighten up