衰える

Meaning

1. v1vi
   to become weak; to decline; to wear; to abate; to decay; to wither; to waste away

Example sentences

• 薪が足りず、はやくも火勢が衰えはじめた暖炉。

  The fireplace, lacking firewood, flames already starting to lose their vigour.

• 貿易の活動は最近衰えてきている。

  The activity of foreign trade has been declining of late.

• 文明が進むにつれて、詩は殆ど必然的に衰える。

  As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.