smallen
Examples
“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.”
“Do you feel⟳ you will be smallening yourself, Norman, if you examine⟳ your childhood?”
“In fact, I did—when I wrote Roget's story. Which begs the question⟳, was the tale really diminished—lessened, minimized, or smallened in some way—when I started to lean⟳ on that linguistic crutch?”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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