The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ABATING which also is the latest solution we found used in Universal uClick in 2017.
Diminishing crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
ABATING | 50 % | 7 |
WANING | 33 % | 6 |
ONTHEWANE | 17 % | 9 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Diminishing
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- decreasing
- dwindling
- decrease
- diminution
- waning
- subsiding
- declining
- lowering
- lessening
- shrinking
- reduced
- abating
Crossword Answer definitions
ABATING verb- (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease.
- To become null and void.
- To nullify; make void.
- To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally.
- To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally.
- To curtail; to deprive.
- To reduce in amount, size, or value.
- To decrease in size, value, or amount.
- To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside.
- To decrease in intensity or force; to subside.
- To deduct or omit.
- To bar or except.
- To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.
- To dull the edge or point of; to blunt.
- To destroy, or level to the ground.
- To enter a tenement without permission after the owner has died and before the heir takes possession.
- Anesis.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result ABATING
- Dying down
- Letting up
- Ebbing
- Easing up
- Falling off
- Settling down
- Like remittent diseases, perhaps
- Lessening.
- Letting up.
- Lessening
More clues leading to the result WANING
- On the decline
- Approaching the third quarter, say
- Like a last-quarter moon
- Decreasing in intensity
- Diminishing
- Declining in power
- In decline
- Declining
- Growing faint.
- Going down.