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• Seriously deteriorates
• Within a week, say, business area goes to rack and ruin
• Whittles away
• Cries openly
• Really cries
• Shows woe
• Analyzes, as syntax
• Creates naturally, as a gorge
• Wears down sweetheart's resistance with poems
• Laments noisily
• Impaled "All That ___"
• Goes bust
• Disintegrates gradually
• Crumbles seed or nuts
• They may be choked back