1. Gradually decreasing until little remains
   - dwindling, tapering

See also: decreasing

• John Dos Passos
• John Dowland
• John Drew
• John Dryden
• John Duns Scotus
• John Eccles
• John Edgar Hoover
• John Edward Masefield
• John Endecott
• John Endicott
• John Ernst Steinbeck
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• John Fletcher
• John Florio
• John Ford
• John Foster Dulles
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• John Galsworthy
• John Glenn
• John Greenleaf Whittier
• John Griffith Chaney
• John Haldane
• John Hancock
• John Hanning Speke
• John Harvard