vähetä — meaning in English

English meaning

• decrease verb To become smaller in amount, size, or degree; or to cause something to become smaller.
• dwindle verb To become steadily smaller, fewer or weaker over time.
• taper verb To become gradually narrower toward one end.
• wane verb To gradually become weaker, smaller, or less intense.

Senses

vähetä is used for these senses in English:

• decrease (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
• dwindle (intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
• taper (ambitransitive) To diminish gradually.
• wane (intransitive, astronomy) For the Moon to pass through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
• wane (intransitive, archaic) To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.

decrease — full definition

1. verb To become smaller in amount, size, or degree; or to cause something to become smaller.
2. noun A reduction in the size or amount of something.

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