Related Clues:
- Wear down, as confidence
- Waste away gradually
- Take away little by little
- Lose little by little
- Wash away slowly
- Weaken, as confidence
- Get sleepy
- Weather gradually
- Become dim
- Slowly reduce, as a cliff
- Adversely affect, as one's confidence
- Scene-ending effect
- Eat at
- Fall behind, in the stretch
- Be outscored at the end