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▸ 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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decline,
ebbing,
go down,
attenuation,
dwindling,
tail-off,
fading,
dwindlement,
diminution,
diminishing,
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