loosening, tightening, lessening, alleviating, relieving, dampening, softening, slowing, abating, subsiding, curbing, lowering, slackening, bolstering, reducing, lifting, stabilizing, weakening, improving, firming, tempering, boosting, normalizing, ratcheting, spurring, allaying, strengthening, moderating, blunting, worsening, toughening, liberalizing, exacerbating, quelling, relenting, resuming, heightening, reining, buoying, deepening, overcoming, averting, narrowing, halting, curtailing, ebbing, relaxed, reversing, persisting, reviving, increasing, quieting, stoking, intensifying, assuaging, quickening, nudging, limiting, freeing, avoiding, extending, lingering, fueling, hardening, quietening, resolving, thawing, accelerating, signaling, damps, calming, tapering, rising, denting, prolonging, eliminating, forestalling, faltering, minimizing, decreasing, unwinding, outweighing, defusing, removing, inching, creeping, settling, offsetting, ameliorating, sidestepping, dissipating, constraining, imposing, squeezing, sparking, surging, edging, reinforcing, amid, wane, aggravating, receding, curtailment, slowdown, lightening, amelioration, decline, diminution, widening, darkening, decrease, increase, upturn, improvement, alleviation, blurring, scaling, add, drawing, logging, read, soothing, talk, write, catalytic, count, deflationary, describable, fertilizing, get, ing, leak, leveling, lifesaving, mnemonic, mystifying

detente, disembarrassment, liberalisation, liberalization, palliation, relaxation, spasmolysis

detente, palliation, shoehorn

alteration, change, decrease, diminution, modification, reduction, step-down

alleviation, moderation, relief