decrescere — meaning in English
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English meaning
- wane verb To gradually become weaker, smaller, or less intense.
Senses
decrescere is used for these senses in English:
- wane (intransitive, astronomy) For the Moon to pass through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
wane — full definition
- verb To gradually become weaker, smaller, or less intense.
- verb Of the moon, to appear to shrink night by night after the full moon.
- noun The phase of decline, especially as in the expression "on the wane."