wane

[wane]

Things that wax and wane grow larger and smaller, like the moon. Things that wane simply grow smaller. "My initial enthusiasm for helping waned when I saw the pile of envelopes that needed licking."

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To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.

Noun
a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

Verb
grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"

Verb
decrease in phase; "the moon is waning"

Verb
become smaller; "Interest in his novels waned"

v. i.
To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.

v. i.
To decline; to fail; to sink.

v. t.
To cause to decrease.

n.
The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.

n.
Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.

n.
An inequality in a board.

Wane

Wane , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Waning.] [OE. wanien, AS. wanian, wonian, from wan, won, deficient, wanting; akin to D. wan-, G. wahnsinn, insanity, OHG. wan, wana-, lacking, wann to lessen, Icel. vanr lacking, Goth. vans; cf. Gr. bereaved, Skr. na wanting, inferior. . Cf. Want lack, and Wanton.] 1. To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.

Like the moon, aye wax ye and wane. Waning moons their settled periods keep.

2. To decline; to fail; to sink.

You saw but sorrow in its waning form.

Land and trade ever will wax and wane together.

Wane

Wane, v. t. To cause to decrease. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Wane

Wane, n. 1. The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator. 2. Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.

An age in which the church is in its wane.

Though the year be on the wane.

3. An inequality in a board. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.

To cause to decrease.

The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.

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Usage Examples

There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.

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