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ratcheted (down)verbalso racheted (down)past tense of ratchet (down) to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallynews stories about the kidnapping will ratchet down as the weeks go by abated, declined, decreased, de-escalated, died (away or down or out), diminished, drained (away), dropped (off), dwindled, eased, ebbed, fell, fell away, lessened, let up, lowered, moderated, palled, phased down, receded, relented, remitted, shrank(or shrunk), subsided, tapered, tapered off, waned compressed, condensed, constricted, contractedevaporated, faded (away), frittered (away), gave out, melted (away), petered (out), tailed (off), vanishedslackened, slowed (down)alleviated, relaxedflagged, sank(or sunk), weakenedcaved (in), collapsed, deflated accumulated, ballooned, built, burgeoned(also bourgeoned), enlarged, escalated, expanded, grew, increased, intensified, mounted, mushroomed, picked up, rose, snowballed, soared, swelled, waxed appeared, emerged, showed upblew up, distended, elongated, lengthened |