Related Clues:

• Pare down
• Tail off
• Minify
• Take down a notch
• Lighten up
• Mitigate
• Allay
• Ameliorate, in a way
• Reduce in intensity
• Become smaller or fewer
• Make smaller
• Cut back or diminish
• Make smaller for lenses
• Decrease, diminish
• After half a century, get there in Germany and don't make so much of it (6)