(transitive) To obtain through deceitful or manipulative methods. / (transitive) To falsify, as records. / (intransitive) To achieve through contrivance or cajolery.

The act of wangling

A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc. / The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.

(intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline. / (intransitive) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.

(Scotland, slang) A child.

(chiefly Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) A house or dwelling.

(intransitive) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood. / (intransitive) To stray; stray from one's course; err. / (intransitive) To commit adultery.

(countable) An act or instance of wandering. / (uncountable) The situation where a value or signal etc. deviates from the correct or normal value.

(idiomatic) in a period of decrease or decline

That wants or desires. / Absent or lacking. / Deficient.