Usually means: Decrease in size or swelling.
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  1. detumesce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. detumesce: Wiktionary
  3. detumesce: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (detumesce)

verb:  (intransitive, of sexual organs) To leave the erect, sexually aroused state.
verb:  (intransitive, of a person) To lose one's sexual arousal: to experience the detumescence of one's sexual organs.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (a person) to detumesce: to induce detumescence.

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