单词 | to wane faint, grey |
释义 | > as lemmasto wane faint, grey 3. Of light, colour, luminous or coloured objects: To decrease in brilliance or splendour; to become faint or dim. Also (nonce-uses) with pleonastic complement, to wane faint, grey. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [verb (intransitive)] > become faint wanec1000 fade13.. faint1430 vade1471 languish?1510 relent1531 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > grow dim or lose brightness [verb (intransitive)] dima1300 fade13.. appal1393 duskc1430 pallc1450 cloud1555 pale1822 wane1832 film1844 dull1862 gauze1876 c1000 Rule of Chrodegang xix Æfter þissum tidum sona cymð se æfensang..& þæs dæges leoht þonne eac wanoð. a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 1107 Manege sædon þet hi on þam monan..mistlice tacna gesawon, & ongean cynde his leoman wexende & waniende. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott iv, in Poems (new ed.) 16 The pale-yellow woods were waning. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. vi. 323 It has waned faint and again waxed bright. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge x. 295 The light waned without, it grew dusk, became quite dark. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xii. 185 The candles waned grey, and the great light streamed in through every crack and cranny. 1888 G. Meredith Reading of Earth 118 Remote they [sc. the stars] wane to gaze intense. < as lemmas |
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