decrease; abate; diminish, dwindle, shrink
Latin word, found 49 times in the texts on Socratos.
Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.125: Nec quia decrescunt effosso marmore montes,
Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.345: surgit humus, crescunt loca decrescentibus undis,
Horace, Carmina 4.7.3: mutat terra vices et decrescentia ripas
All forms of decresco