drawing in; shortening
● Recession
● Shrinkage
● Reduction
● Decrease
● Condensation
● Reducing
● Compression
● Abridgment
● Evaporation
● Confinement
● Lessening
● Abbreviation
● Narrowing
● Omission
● Curtailment
● Withdrawal
● Diminution
● Shrinking
● Constriction
● Confining
● Omitting
● Deflation
● Receding
● Condensing
● Elision
● Tightening
● Dwindling
● Curtailing
● Decreasing
● Deflating
● Diminishing
● Drawing together
● Tensing
● Stretch
● Spread
● Opening
● Extension
● Dilation
● Amplification
● Expansion
● Increase
● Enlargement
● Loppings
● Trash
● Trashed
● Trashing
● Affronts
● Admonitions
● Alarms
● Archways
● Aspersions
● Assaults
● Attempts
● Awakenings
● Bans
● Barks
● Bars
● Bayous
● Benches
● Blazes
● Brawls
● Bruises
● Clearings
● Erections
● Tapers