• decaying, faint, swooning
• to get by, to go by, to go past, to pass
• mortification, necrosis
• to heap, to lavish, to load, to plaster, to ply, to rain, to smother, to swamp
• to adjourn, to can, to defer, to delay, to hold over, to leave over, to postpone, to put off, to remit, to respite, to side-track, to stay
• to dry up, to shut up, to shut up shop, to sink, sank, sunk, to suppress, to withhold, withheld
• adjournment, deferment, stay, suspension
• to fade, to grow dim, to trail off
• to confute, to floor, to gag, to hush, to muzzle, to put down, to shush, to shut up, to silence, to suppress