"wanse" meaning in English

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      "name": "m"
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        "4": "to do too little"
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        "4": "lack, want"
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    {
      "form": "wanses",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "wansing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wansed",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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      "form": "wansed",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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      "glosses": [
        "To wane; waste, waste away; pine; wither."
      ],
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          "wane",
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          "waste",
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        ],
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          "waste away",
          "waste away"
        ],
        [
          "pine",
          "pine"
        ],
        [
          "wither",
          "wither"
        ]
      ],
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        "(intransitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To wane; waste, waste away; pine; wither."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "wanze"
        }
      ],
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        "Scotland",
        "UK",
        "dialectal",
        "intransitive"
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    }
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  "word": "wanse"
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        "5": "to decrease, diminish"
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        "5": "to diminish"
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    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "",
        "4": "lack, want"
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      "name": "cog"
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        "2": "wane"
      },
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English wansen (“to decrease, diminish”), from Old English wansian (“to diminish”), from Proto-Germanic *wansōną, *wanisōną (“to lessen”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”). Cognate with Old Norse vansa (“to do too little”), Old Norse vansi (“lack, want”). More at wane.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "wanses",
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        "present",
        "singular",
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    {
      "form": "wansing",
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        "present"
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    {
      "form": "wansed",
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    {
      "form": "wansed",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
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      "glosses": [
        "To wane; waste, waste away; pine; wither."
      ],
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          "wane",
          "wane"
        ],
        [
          "waste",
          "waste"
        ],
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          "waste away",
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        ],
        [
          "pine",
          "pine"
        ],
        [
          "wither",
          "wither"
        ]
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        "(intransitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To wane; waste, waste away; pine; wither."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
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    {
      "word": "wanze"
    }
  ],
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}