Crossword clues for wan
wan
- White stick finally discarded
- White end falls off magic rod
- Sickly-looking magician’s prop incomplete
- Drawn from southern half of island nation
- Looking pale and tired
- Drained of color
- Far from ruddy
- Looking pale
- White as a ghost
- Ghostly pale
- Hardly rosy
- Lacking enthusiasm
- Sickly pale
- Unhealthy looking
- Quite white
- Not exactly ruddy
- Sickly looking
- Grow pale
- Pale and sickly-looking
- Not healthy-looking
- Hardly hearty
- Not looking well, in a way
- Looking peaked
- Hardly the picture of health
- Hardly radiant
- Ghastly looking
- Visibly unwell
- Unhealthily white-faced
- Unhealthily pale-looking
- Totally white
- Terribly pale
- Pale, as a face
- Pale-looking in an unhealthy way
- Pale of face
- Pale and sickly
- Obi-Kenobi link
- Obi-___ Kenobi ("Star Wars" character)
- Obi- -- Kenobi
- Not exactly the picture of health
- Not at all ruddy
- Looking washed-out
- In need of some vitamin D, perhaps
- "The Conjuring" and "Insidious: Chapter 2" director James
- "Aquaman" director James
- Not sanguine
- Ashen
- Opposite of ruddy
- Peaked
- Whey-faced
- Whitish
- Obi-___ Kenobi, Jedi master/spiritual guru
- Lacking color
- Pasty
- Pale as a ghost
- Pallid
- Unnaturally pale-looking
- Washed-out in complexion
- Showing fatigue
- Blanched
- Pasty-faced
- Like some complexions
- Tired-looking
- Ill-looking
- Hardly ruddy
- Weak
- Weak-looking
- In need of blusher, say
- Weary-looking
- Not ruddy
- Ghastly pale
- Opposite of flushed
- Not looking 100% well
- Faint
- Looking sickly
- Washed out
- Goth-looking, in a way
- Sickly-looking
- A computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network
- Languid, as a smile
- Like Suckling's lover
- Colorless
- Ruddy's antithesis
- Looking like a ghost
- Far from rubicund
- Lacking force or color
- Lusterless
- Haggard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
--Tennyson.
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.
--Chaucer.
Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
--Suckling.
With the wan moon overhead.
--Longfellow.
Wan \Wan\, n. The quality of being wan; wanness. [R.]
Tinged with wan from lack of sleep.
--Tennyson.
Win \Win\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Won, Obs. Wan; p. pr. & vb. n. Winning.] [OE. winnen, AS. winnan to strive, labor, fight, endure; akin to OFries. winna, OS. winnan, D. winnen to win, gain, G. gewinnen, OHG. winnan to strive, struggle, Icel. vinna to labor, suffer, win, Dan. vinde to win, Sw. vinna, Goth. winnan to suffer, Skr. van to wish, get, gain, conquer. [root]138. Cf. Venerate, Winsome, Wish, Wont, a.]
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To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to win a battle, or to win a country. ``This city for to win.''
--Chaucer. ``Who thus shall Canaan win.''
--Milton.Thy well-breathed horse Impels the flying car, and wins the course.
--Dryden. -
To allure to kindness; to bring to compliance; to gain or obtain, as by solicitation or courtship.
Thy virtue wan me; with virtue preserve me.
--Sir P. Sidney.She is a woman; therefore to be won.
--Shak. To gain over to one's side or party; to obtain the favor, friendship, or support of; to render friendly or approving; as, to win an enemy; to win a jury.
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To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.
Even in the porch he him did win.
--Spenser.And when the stony path began, By which the naked peak they wan, Up flew the snowy ptarmigan.
--Sir W. Scott. -
(Mining) To extract, as ore or coal.
--Raymond.Syn: To gain; get; procure; earn. See Gain.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English wann "dark, dusky, lacking luster," later "leaden, pale, gray," of uncertain origin, and not found in other Germanic languages. The connecting notion is colorlessness. Perhaps related to wane. Related: Wanly; wanness.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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pale, sickly-looking. n. The quality of being wan; wanness. Etymology 2
v
(context obsolete English) (en-pastwin)
WordNet
adj. (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 light of dawn" [syn: pale, pallid]
abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed" [syn: pale, pallid]
lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile"
Wikipedia
WAN may refer to:
- Wide Area Network in computer networking
- Wan (surname)
- Wan language of Ivory Coast
- Wanborough railway station, in England, by station code
- World Association of Newspapers
- Wan, a character in The Boy Who Would Live Forever by Frederik Pohl
Wan is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written in simplified Chinese and in traditional Chinese. It is romanized as Man in Cantonese. It is listed 162nd in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames. As of 2008, it is the 88th most common surname in China, shared by 2.4 million people.
Usage examples of "wan".
It was Sandy Wan, the woman who would later help me track down the truth about the abortus vendors.
Wan and hollow-eyed as Seregil looked, he was bearing up better than Alec had imagined possible.
Blinking slowly, his worn gentle face turned stony, the Wan searched the dazed faces of the Amar until he saw the one he Wanted.
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She shaded her eyes and looked up and saw the moon hanging in the pure summer blueness, a wan face blankly amused by their silliness.
In the plaza a dozen white dolomite statues, now more or less dilapidated, cast stark black shadows away from the wan red sunlight.
He dipped doughy bread into it regularly and sucked at the resulting mess, chewing but not biting off, gnawing and worrying at the saliva-fouled bread that dripped wan yellow onto his desk.
The Escapee, however, faced with this insurrection of militant pessimism, turned pale and wan and murmured to himself comforting phrases of Kropotkin, etc.
Nothing execrable was wanting, neither military scenes full of little leaden soldiers, nor wan antiquity, nor the middle ages, smeared, as it were, with bitumen.
But ifn he evah did fah me, Ahd hab a dozin places in one houah from de varyus gennelmens what wans me.
And that Fiers might have also stolen their daughter, christened Carla May Mendelsohn, training her throughout a cold childhood of mind control and psychological indoctrination to become the wan, silent, tormented, but no less deadly, personal assassin he had christened Pity.
Pools of fouled black water gleamed greasily in the wan daylight, fringed with charred, stinking vegetation.
There he met a man who called himself Ha Minh Hien, who from his description is almost certainly your friend Van Luk Wan.
Her fragrant hair tickled his face as he strayed slow kisses there and caressed the lovesome geography of her, the flat, solid muscles in her back, the flesh of her nape under its wanning hair-cover.
He has the connections to find out through immigration whether Van Luk Wan entered the US as a tourist or a refugee.