- Become weaker - Decline in power - Ebb - To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and
especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon. - To decline; to fail; to sink. - To cause to decrease. - The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye
of a spectator.
- Become weaker - To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical
action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation,
disease, etc., upon living bodies. - To make thin or less consistent; to render less
viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors
of the body, or to break them into finer parts. - To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make
less complex; to weaken. - To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to
lessen. - Alt. of Attenuated