Meanings (ES + gloss)
menguante de la Luna
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.
It was very dark, for although the sky was clear the moon was now well in the wane, and would not rise till the small hours.
Some French peasants also prefer to sow in the wane.
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
menguar
To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
Land and trade ever will wax and wane together.
You saw but sorrow in its waning form.
menguar
For the Moon to pass through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
The fall of Jack, and the subsequent fall of Jill, simply represent the vanishing of one moon-spot after another, as the moon wanes.
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