wane
/weɪn/ verbo C2En español: menguar, amenguar
- To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
- For light to dim or diminish in strength.
- For the Moon to pass through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
- Said of a time period that comes to an end.
He/she/it wanes · Pasado waned · Participio pasado waned · Forma en -ing waning
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By a chance, which added yet more to the intensity of the darkness, the moon, which was on the wane, did not rise until eleven o’clock, and the streets which the young man traversed were plunged in the deepest obscurity.
To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year.
I cannot doubt that Stapleton recruited his waning resources in this fashion, and that for years he has been a desperate and dangerous man.
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