• underdevelopment, halt, abatement, falling, fading, compression, ebbing, stop, decrease, weakening, death, expiring, wilting, Shriveling, expiry, dying, destruction, nondevelopment, worsening, reduction, regress, expiration, failure, exit, withering, decline, stagnation, waning, end, lapse, abridgment, lessening, decease, devaluation, Diminishment, declining, relapse, demise, loss, backslide.