decrew

To decrease, wane.

Verb

  1. To 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,...

Origin

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

Forms

decrews decrewing decrewed