to become weak;  to decline;  to wear;  to abate;  to decay;  to wither
 weakness;  debility;  breakdown;  prostration
 decline;  degeneration;  decay;  waning;  ebbing
 weakening;  emaciation;  decline
 attenuation;  damping;  decay
 senility;  senile decay;  infirmity (through age)
 neurasthenia;  nervous breakdown;  concentration (card game involving turning over face-down cards to find identical pairs)
 death from prostration;  death from emaciation
 rise and fall;  ups and downs;  welfare;  vicissitudes
 to become emaciated;  to waste away;  to grow thin and worn out
 to become emaciated;  to waste away;  to grow thin and worn out
 decline and fall;  ruin;  downfall;  collapse
 ups and downs of life;  vicissitudes of fortune
 even the prosperous inevitably decay;  sic transit gloria mundi;  all that's fair must fade
 decline;  degeneration;  decay;  waning;  ebbing
 phase of decline;  ebb;  twilight
 decline;  downfall;  ruin(ation)
 to be utterly spent or crushed
 five signs of the impending death of a heavenly being
 attenuation (factor, rate)
 inevitable decline (decay, collapse, etc.)
 downward tendency;  decay;  decline
 rise and fall;  ups and downs;  waxing and waning;  prosperity and decline;  vicissitudes
 rise and fall;  prosperity and decline;  vicissitudes
 prosperity and decay;  rise and fall;  ebb and flow;  vicissitudes (of fortune)
 fading color;  fading colour;  fading beauty
 becoming emaciated and die;  wither away
 (falling into a) continuous decline;  being on the wane
 weakened condition;  state of decline
 damping ratio;  decay constant