shrinking, homogenizing, squeezing, atrophying, brain drain, downsizing, flattening, fragmenting, gutting, bailing, decimating, hemorrhaging, wringing, churning, sucking, eroding, phasing, shriveling, weakening, slicing, deadening, bracket creep, carving, depopulating, juts, levering, leeching, exploding, cannibalizing, gluts, hammering, engorging, impoverishing, chiseling, cantilevering, whittling, gnawing, disintegrating, shifting, sprouting, urban sprawl, collateral damage, calcify, flexing, cohering, wiping, denude, bankrupting, thinning, unhinging, splintering, shafting, hornswoggle, branching, bottoming, reshaping, blacking, tearing, bursting, slowing, sloughing, beggaring, enfeeble, bashing, plutonomy, diminishing, congealing, wither, poking, rust belt, bulges, cutting, overstretch, ossifying, crowding, stagnate, ripping, seeping, anxiety neurosis, rot, garrisoning, enlarging, whither, snuffing, shoring, fanning, ramify, wimping, disappearing, devastate, overreach, grinding, distend, decelerating, demonizing, walling, destroying, chopping, destabilizing, reifying, plonking, gnashing, comminution, cooling, fracturing, blackening, bleaching, chilling, clumping, condensation, cracking, decomposition, degradation, denudation, desiccation, disorientation, drying, fermentation, flaking, hardening, incoherence, liquefaction

dugout, dugout canoe, excavate, pirogue