Illustration: In the earthen kitchen of an Edo-period home, a cook crouches beside the fire opening of a clay cooking stove. Most of the firewood has burned down to fragile ash and glowing embers; only one small, wavering flame remains beneath the pot.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

衰おとろえる

otoroeru

to weaken, to decline

Example sentences

視力しりょくが衰おとろえ始はじめた。
My eyesight is beginning to fail.
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風かぜがやや衰おとろえた。
The wind abated a little.
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彼かれの体力たいりょくは徐々じょじょに衰おとろえた。
His strength slowly declined.
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Kanji in 衰

衰decline; waneOnスイKunおとろえる

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