Usually means: Decrease in size, extent, power.
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noun:  A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
noun:  The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
noun:  (literary) The end of a period.
noun:  (woodworking) A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
verb:  (intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
verb:  (intransitive) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
verb:  (intransitive, astronomy) Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
verb:  (intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cause to decrease.
noun:  (Scotland, slang) A child.
noun:  (chiefly Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) A house or dwelling.

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