It is an inflection of decrease. It's the totally opposite to increase (antonym of increase). To say undermine, diminish, reduce, finish, exhausting (especially if it refers to a rapid, continuous, gradual, steady way). It also has applications in computer science. In statistics is the loss constant a numeric value over time (is reflected graphically on a line that is falling or down towards the right).
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