décroître — meaning in English

English meaning

• dwindle verb To become steadily smaller, fewer or weaker over time.
• wane verb To gradually become weaker, smaller, or less intense.

Senses

décroître is used for these senses in English:

• dwindle (intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.

wane — full definition

1. verb To gradually become weaker, smaller, or less intense.
2. verb Of the moon, to appear to shrink night by night after the full moon.
3. noun The phase of decline, especially as in the expression "on the wane."

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