moderating

abstinent ascetic austere continent frugal moderate restrained self-denying self-restrained sober sparing temperate

gluttonous greedy hungry

condoning diminishing justifying lessening mitigating palliating qualifying reducing sanitizing softening varnishing whitewashing

abating declining depreciating diminishing dropping dwindling ebbing lightening lowering narrowing plummeting plunging quieting sagging shrinking sinking slackening slowing slumping softening subsiding waning wasting weakening

dying down fading away losing momentum shriveling up wearing down wearing off