wan

[Wan]

Someone who is wan is visibly unwell and lacking in energy. If you’ve had the flu for over a week, and you finally get out of bed looking pale and tired, your mother might say that you look wan.

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Won.

Noun
a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network

Verb
become pale and sickly

Adjective S.
lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile"

Adjective S.
abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed"

Adjective S.
(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan li

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imp.
Won.

a.
Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.

n.
The quality of being wan; wanness.

v. i.
To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.


of Win


Wan

Wan , obs. imp. of Win. Won. Chaucer.

Wan

Wan , a. [AS. wann, wonn, wan, won, dark, lurid, livid, perhaps originally, worn out by toil, from winnan to labor, strive. See Win.] 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.
Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
With the wan moon overhead.

Wan

Wan, n. The quality of being wan; wanness. [R.]
Tinged with wan from lack of sleep.

Wan

Wan , v. i. 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.

Won.

Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.

The quality of being wan; wanness.

To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.

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