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Another word for wan

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Adjective

  1. Pale and exhausted, as because of worry or sleeplessness

    See also:

    tired

  2. Lacking color

    See also:

    colors

Verb

  1. To lose normal coloration; turn pale

    See also:

    colors

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Another word for wan

Modifier
  1. See also:

    pale

    pale

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Sentence Examples

  • Rissa met his gaze with a wan smile.

  • On the day set apart for worship (Wan Phra, or" Day of the Lord ") the attendance at the temples is small and consists mostly of women.

  • Civil Wan He lost the island, which gave itself to Aragon; and of Gue!phs thus the kingdom of Sicily was severed from that of anj Naples, the dynasty in the one being Spanish and Ghibelline, in the other French and Guelph.

  • Lu had a great name among the other states of Chow, its marquises being descended from the duke of Chow, the legislator and consolidator of the dynasty which had been founded by his father and brother, the famous kings Wan and Wu.

  • The fortune of war in- batons dined at first in favor of the royalists, who captured wan Northampton and Nottingham.

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