Thesaurus: wan

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1. imp. Won.
2. a. Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
3. n. The quality of being wan; wanness.
4. v. i. To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
5. of Win
6. n. a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network
7. adj. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
8. adj. abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
9. adj. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness
10. v. become pale and sickly
11. Won. Chaucer. Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid. "Sad to view, his visage pale and wan." Spenser. My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue. Chaucer. Why so pale and wan, fond lover Suckling. With the wan moon overhead. Longfellow. The quality of being wan; wanness. [R.] Tinged with wan from lack of sleep. Tennyson. To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks. "All his visage wanned." Shak. And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair. Tennyson.
12. Won. Chaucer.