"exiguate" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "exiguates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "exiguating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "exiguated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "exiguated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "exiguate (third-person singular simple present exiguates, present participle exiguating, simple past and past participle exiguated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1860, Catherine Gore, The Lord and the Lout - Page 50:",
          "text": "\"Though defrauded of an earldom, he need not exiguate into a dwarf.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, translated by Humphrey T. Davies, Leg Over Leg: Volumes Three and Four - Page 408:",
          "text": "\"My allotted portion of good things, my body, and my house—\"\n \"Each is exiguate, exiguate, exiguate.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to shrink and reduce in quality or value; to become exiguous"
      ],
      "id": "en-exiguate-en-verb-TCVO2x7x",
      "links": [
        [
          "shrink",
          "shrink"
        ],
        [
          "reduce",
          "reduce"
        ],
        [
          "quality",
          "quality"
        ],
        [
          "value",
          "value"
        ],
        [
          "exiguous",
          "exiguous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) to shrink and reduce in quality or value; to become exiguous"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪɡˈzɪɡju.eɪt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛɡˈzɪɡju.eɪt/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "exiguate"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "exiguates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "exiguating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "exiguated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "exiguated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1860, Catherine Gore, The Lord and the Lout - Page 50:",
          "text": "\"Though defrauded of an earldom, he need not exiguate into a dwarf.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, translated by Humphrey T. Davies, Leg Over Leg: Volumes Three and Four - Page 408:",
          "text": "\"My allotted portion of good things, my body, and my house—\"\n \"Each is exiguate, exiguate, exiguate.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to shrink and reduce in quality or value; to become exiguous"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shrink",
          "shrink"
        ],
        [
          "reduce",
          "reduce"
        ],
        [
          "quality",
          "quality"
        ],
        [
          "value",
          "value"
        ],
        [
          "exiguous",
          "exiguous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) to shrink and reduce in quality or value; to become exiguous"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪɡˈzɪɡju.eɪt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛɡˈzɪɡju.eɪt/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "exiguate"
}