whakaeroero
1. (verb) to diminish, dwindle, disappear.
Nā, i te poka whakatata ki te whakaeroero ngā whetū i te ata hāpara, ka wehewehe ngā matua e toru nei, he rau tōpū ki te matua kotahi (JPS 1919:124). / So, when the stars were about to disappear at dawn, the three divisions of the army, each one of two hundred, separated.