(intransitive) To tell invented stories, often those that involve fantasy, such as fables. / (transitive, archaic) To relate as or in the manner of a fable.

simple past tense and past participle of debate

(physics) confinement in a nanosized region

(UK, Australia) Cease to boil when heat is no longer applied. / (idiomatic, UK, Australia) To lose interest; to pall. / (idiomatic, UK, Australia) To become of diminished intensity or urgency.