decrew
To decrease, wane.
Verb
- 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.