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menguar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • abate verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
  • dwindle verb To become steadily smaller, fewer or weaker over time.
  • fizzle verb To gradually fail or fade away after a promising start.
  • lessen verb To make something smaller in size, degree, or intensity; to reduce it.
  • nerf verb To bump lightly, whether accidentally or purposefully.
  • wane verb To gradually become weaker, smaller, or less intense.
  • waning adj Becoming gradually weaker, smaller, or less influential.

Senses

menguar is used for these senses in English:

  • dial down (idiomatic, transitive) To reduce or diminish in effect or intensity.
  • dwindle (intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
  • fizzle (figuratively, informal) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.
  • lessen (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
  • nerf (transitive, slang) To arbitrarily limit or reduce the capability of.
  • slack off (intransitive) To decrease in intensity; to ease off; to diminish; to die down.
  • waning Becoming weaker or smaller.

abate — full definition

  1. verb To become less strong or severe; to die down.
  2. verb (law) To cancel or bring a legal matter to an end.

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