To reduce in quality or purity.
To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
To lower in value or social position.
To lose vitality.
To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
To grant in mortmain.
To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
To be subdued.
To gangrene.