欠ける — meaning in English

English meaning

• lack noun The absence or shortage of something needed or wanted.
• wane verb To gradually become weaker, smaller, or less intense.

Senses

欠ける is used for these senses in English:

• lack (transitive, stative) To be without, not to have, to need, to require.
• wane (intransitive, astronomy) For the Moon to pass through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.

lack — full definition

1. noun The absence or shortage of something needed or wanted.
2. verb To not have, or not have enough of, something.

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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