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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "becoming weaker or smaller",
"word": "mizející"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "becoming weaker or smaller",
"word": "vytrácející se"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "becoming weaker or smaller",
"word": "hupeneva"
},
{
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"lang": "French",
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"word": "décroissant"
},
{
"code": "oc",
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},
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},
{
"code": "oc",
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"word": "amenent"
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"sense": "of the lunar phase",
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{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "of the lunar phase",
"word": "ubývající"
},
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "of the lunar phase",
"word": "malkreska"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of the lunar phase",
"word": "décroissant"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of the lunar phase",
"word": "abnehmen"
},
{
"code": "la",
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"masculine",
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{
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},
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "of the lunar phase",
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"feminine"
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},
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"code": "es",
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"word": "menguante"
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{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "rɛɛm",
"sense": "of the lunar phase",
"word": "แรม"
}
],
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}
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"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
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"text": "the waning of her energy"
},
{
"ref": "1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems",
"text": "And boyhood is a summer sun\nWhose waning is the dreariest one —\nFor all we live to know is known\nAnd all we seek to keep hath flown — […]",
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{
"ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick",
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{
"text": "17th century, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. R. B.\nThis earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses."
}
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "becoming weaker or smaller",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
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"sense": "becoming weaker or smaller",
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{
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aflaquiment"
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{
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"feminine"
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"feminine"
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"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "The fact or act of becoming smaller",
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "The fact or act of becoming smaller",
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],
"word": "decrecimiento"
}
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