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retire into the shade

verb

Roget 36: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge etc. (shorten) 201; shrink etc. (contract) 195; drop off, fall off, tail off; ... show more

Roget 34: be inferior etc. adj.; fall short of, come short of; not pass, not come up to; want.    become smaller, render smaller etc. (decrease) 36, ... show more

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