Cases of word usage

1) the gradual recovery of health and strength (convalescence)

2) a period of gradual and continued loss of importance, strength (decline)

3) kind, friendly; not rough or violent; gradual (gentle)

4) that cannot be seen; very slight or gradual (imperceptible)

5) a small error in speech, behaviour, memory etc; a gradual passing (of time) (lapse)

6) a gradual stopping of a woman's monthly bleeding after about 45 yeas of age (menopause)

7) the gradual and unconscious adoption or acceptance of ideas, facts (osmosis)

8) a gradual increase in size or sound; the slow rise and fall of the sea's surface after a storm; to become greater in volume, thickness or force (swell)