All build-up antonyms

noun build-up

• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
• shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
• drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• fall — to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
• deduction — A deduction is a conclusion that you have reached about something because of other things that you know to be true.
• lessening — to become less.
• reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
• subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
• dispersal — The action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area.
• dispersion — Also, dispersal. an act, state, or instance of dispersing or of being dispersed.
• dissipation — the act of dissipating.
• scattering — distributed or occurring here and there at irregular intervals; scattered.
• ignorance — the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
• ingredient — something that enters as an element into a mixture: Flour, eggs, and sugar are the main ingredients in the cake.
• unreadiness — not ready; not made ready: The new stadium is as yet unready for use.
• obscurity — the state or quality of being obscure.
• secret — done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others: secret negotiations.