Related Clues:

• Makes less intense
• Pulls back, as water
• Falls away
• Weakens, as support
• Draws away from shore
• Flows back, as a tide
• Doesn't force
• Makes lighter
• Frees from pressure
• Falls back, as a tide
• Loses strength
• Starts to drop
• Makes less stressful
• Recedes, as the tide
• Fades or declines