decrew

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verb

To decrease, wane.

OriginMiddle French decreu →
Scrabble 12
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Meanings

verbdecrew (third-person singular simple present decrews, present participle decrewing, simple past and past participle decrewed)

present singular third person decrews · participle present decrewing · participle past decrewed · past decrewed

  1. obsoleterareTo decrease, wane.

    But toward th'end Sir Arthegall renewed / His strength still more, but she still more decrewed.

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchdecreu
  2. Englishdecrew

From Middle French decreu, past participle of decreistre (“to decrease”). Compare accrue.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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