What is another word for "shrinking"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "shrinking": abate, abatement, abridge, abridgment, alacrity, and, anticlimax, attenuate, aversation, averseness, away, backwardness, bate, coarctation, conscience, contract, contraction, crumble, decay, declension, decline, decrease, decreasing, decrement, delicacy, demur, depreciate, depreciation, dequantitate, descend, descent, deterioration, die, diminish, diminution, discount, disinclination, dislike, dissent, drop.