Smallen

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make or become small; diminish ambitransitive

    "And Ywain looked down in his wheeling, and there was the city of Dœdala very far beneath him, and it smallened and darkened continually, so that save for the moonlight upon the towers he had soon seen it no more."

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"And Ywain looked down in his wheeling, and there was the city of Dœdala very far beneath him, and it smallened and darkened continually, so that save for the moonlight upon the towers he had soon seen it no more."

Etymology

From small + -en.

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