All chrysalides antonyms

noun chrysalides

• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
• lessening — to become less.
• reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
• shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
• withdrawal — Also, withdrawment. the act or condition of withdrawing.
• stagnation — the state or condition of stagnating, or having stopped, as by ceasing to run or flow: Meteorologists forecast ozone and air stagnation.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• retrogression — the act of retrogressing; movement backward.