"fainten" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From faint + -en (verbal suffix).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "faintens",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "faintening",
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    {
      "form": "faintened",
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      "form": "faintened",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1808, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt, The Works of Joseph Hall",
          "text": "Thou wilt not be, either so little absent as not to whet our appetites, nor so long as to fainten the heart.",
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        "To make or become faint."
      ],
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          "faint",
          "faint"
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To make or become faint."
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        "transitive"
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  "word": "fainten"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From faint + -en (verbal suffix).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "faintens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "faintening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "faintened",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "faintened",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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        "To make or become faint."
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  "word": "fainten"
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