Related Clues:

• Periods of decline
• Draws back
• Turns down
• Subsides, as the tide
• Goes to low beam, e.g.
• Lowers in luminosity
• Decreases
• Tapers off
• Gets darker
• Pulls away
• Shrinks back
• Moves like the tide
• Goes out, as the tide
• Moderates
• Lowers, in a way