See wane in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "1913, Michael Ott, The Catholic Encyclopedia, \"Wenzel Anton Kaunitz\",\nHis influence which was on the wane during the reign of Joseph II grew still less during the reign of Leopold II (1790-2)."
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"ref": "1926, H. P. Lovecraft, The Moon-Bog:",
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"ref": "1902, John Masefield, The Golden City of St. Mary:",
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"ref": "1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./1/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:",
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"ref": "2022 September 30, Rebecca Ratcliffe, “Anger after Thai court rules 2014 coup leader can carry on as PM”, in The Guardian, Guardian News & Media Limited:",
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
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"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "hiipua"
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 3 1 2 3",
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"lang": "French",
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"word": "décliner"
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"_dis1": "90 2 3 1 2 3",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "schwinden"
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 3 1 2 3",
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"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
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"imperfective"
],
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 3 1 2 3",
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
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"perfective"
],
"word": "zblednąć"
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 3 1 2 3",
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"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "убыва́ть"
},
{
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"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
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"perfective"
],
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 3 1 2 3",
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"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "menguar"
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{
"_dis1": "90 2 3 1 2 3",
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"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "avta"
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"_dis1": "90 2 3 1 2 3",
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"roman": "slabšaty",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "слабшати"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 2 3 1 2 3",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "spadaty",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
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"text": "The skies may hold not the splendour of sundown fast; / It wanes into twilight as dawn dies down into day.",
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{
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"Fundamental"
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[
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[
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"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
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{
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
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"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
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{
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{
"_dis1": "1 1 87 2 3 6",
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
"word": "tōriwha"
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{
"_dis1": "1 1 87 2 3 6",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
"word": "roku"
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{
"_dis1": "1 1 87 2 3 6",
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"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
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{
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"roman": "približavam se kǎm kraja si",
"sense": "of a time period, to come to an end",
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"_dis1": "1 3 9 84 1 2",
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"ref": "1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter XIX, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:",
"text": "The snow which had been for some time waning, had given way entirely under the fresh gale of the preceding night.",
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{
"ref": "2012 August 30, Ann Gibbons, “Genome Brings Ancient Girl to Life”, in Science Now, retrieved 2012-09-04:",
"text": "Denisovans had little genetic diversity, suggesting that their small population waned further as populations of modern humans expanded.",
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"ref": "1797, Anna Seward, Letter to Mrs Childers of Yorkshire:",
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"ref": "1866, Sabine Baring-Gould, “The Man in the Moon”, in Curious Myths of the Middle Ages:",
"text": "The fall of Jack, and the subsequent fall of Jill, simply represent the vanishing of one moon-spot after another, as the moon wanes.",
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"ref": "1889, Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Swimmer's Dream:",
"text": "Fast as autumn days toward winter: yet it seems//Here that autumn wanes not, here that woods and streams",
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"(intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end."
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"ref": "1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter XIX, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:",
"text": "The snow which had been for some time waning, had given way entirely under the fresh gale of the preceding night.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012 August 30, Ann Gibbons, “Genome Brings Ancient Girl to Life”, in Science Now, retrieved 2012-09-04:",
"text": "Denisovans had little genetic diversity, suggesting that their small population waned further as populations of modern humans expanded.",
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"numbers"
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"(intransitive, archaic) To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface."
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"ref": "1610, Ben Jonson, The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers:",
"text": "In which no lustful finger can profane him,\nNor any earth with black eclipses wane him",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1797, Anna Seward, Letter to Mrs Childers of Yorkshire:",
"text": "Proud once and princely was the mansion, ere a succession of spendthrifts waned away its splendour.",
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"To cause to decrease."
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"(transitive, obsolete) To cause to decrease."
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"ipa": "/weɪn/",
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"UK",
"US"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "namaljavam",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "намалявам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "čezna",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "чезна"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "minvar"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "tanen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "hiipua"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "décliner"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "schwinden"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "riko"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "roku"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "roroku"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "blednąć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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"word": "zblednąć"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubyvátʹ",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "убыва́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubýtʹ",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "убы́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "menguar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "avta"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "slabšaty",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "слабшати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "spadaty",
"sense": "to progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity, etc.",
"word": "спадати"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "gasna",
"sense": "of light: to dim",
"word": "гасна"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of light: to dim",
"word": "himmetä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of light: to dim",
"word": "himmentyä"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "namaljavam",
"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
"word": "намалявам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
"word": "vähetä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
"word": "décroître"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
"word": "abnehmen"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
"word": "téigh ar gcúl"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kakeru",
"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
"word": "欠ける"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
"word": "tōriwha"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
"word": "roku"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
"word": "roroku"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
"word": "minke"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
"word": "minka"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
"word": "minke"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
"word": "minguar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of the Moon, to become less visible",
"word": "menguar"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "približavam se kǎm kraja si",
"sense": "of a time period, to come to an end",
"word": "приближавам се към края си"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a time period, to come to an end",
"word": "päättyä"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface",
"word": "tükənmək"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface",
"word": "azalmaq"
},
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "namaljavam",
"sense": "to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface",
"word": "намалявам"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface",
"word": "vähetä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface",
"word": "hiipua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "in size",
"sense": "to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface",
"word": "supistua"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface",
"word": "décroître"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface",
"word": "schrumpfen"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface",
"word": "tükenmek"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "menšaty",
"sense": "to decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface",
"word": "меншати"
}
],
"word": "wane"
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"A child."
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"word": "wain"
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"word": "waine"
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{
"word": "wean"
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"name": "inh"
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],
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"A house or dwelling."
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