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It means to decrease, get smaller, or fewer in number, to reduce in some way. To 'become less'. There are words like it: deepen means to 'get deeper', broaden means to get more broad, ripen means to 'get ripe', etc. This form is a remnant of the time when English was an inflected language, very early in its history.

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