'Wane' definitions:
Definition of 'wane'
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Definition of 'Wane'
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- 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, wan?n to lessen, Icel. vanr lacking, Goth. vans; cf. Gr. ? bereaved, Skr. ?na wanting, inferior. ????. Cf. Want lack, and Wanton.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon. [1913 Webster]
- Like the moon, aye wax ye and wane. Waning moons their settled periods keep. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To decline; to fail; to sink. [1913 Webster]
- You saw but sorrow in its waning form. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Land and trade ever will wax and wane together. --Sir J. Child. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wane'
From: GCIDE
- Wane \Wane\, v. t. To cause to decrease. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wane'
From: GCIDE
- Wane \Wane\, n.
- 1. The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension. [1913 Webster]
- An age in which the church is in its wane. --South. [1913 Webster]
- Though the year be on the wane. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An inequality in a board. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Forestry) The natural curvature of a log or of the edge of a board sawed from a log. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'wane'
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- abate,
- ablate,
- advance,
- age,
- ascend,
- back,
- back up,
- bate,
- be eaten away,
- beat,
- budge,
- calm,
- calm down,
- catabasis,
- cease,
- cessation,
- change,
- change place,
- cheat the undertaker,
- circle,
- climb,
- collapse,
- comedown,
- consume,
- consume away,
- corrode,
- crash,
- crumble,
- dead set,
- dead stand,
- dead stop,
- deadlock,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- deceleration,
- declension,
- declination,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- decrease,
- decrescendo,
- deformation,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradation,
- deliquesce,
- demotion,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- descend,
- descent,
- deterioration,
- devolution,
- die,
- die away,
- die down,
- diminish,
- diminuendo,
- dive,
- dodder,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward mobility,
- downward trend,
- drift away,
- drop,
- drop off,
- dwindle,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- dying down,
- ease off,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- effeteness,
- erode,
- fade,
- fade away,
- fading,
- fail,
- failing,
- failure,
- failure of nerve,
- fall,
- fall away,
- fall off,
- fall short,
- falling-off,
- flow,
- full stop,
- get along,
- get on,
- get over,
- go,
- go around,
- go away,
- go down,
- go downhill,
- go off,
- go round,
- go sideways,
- grow old,
- gyrate,
- halt,
- hit a slump,
- hit rock bottom,
- hit the skids,
- involution,
- languish,
- lapse,
- lash,
- lessen,
- let up,
- lock,
- loss of tone,
- lull,
- melt away,
- moderate,
- molder,
- mount,
- move,
- move away,
- move off,
- move over,
- pacify,
- plummet,
- plunge,
- progress,
- pull away,
- quiesce,
- quiet,
- quieten,
- reach the depths,
- recede,
- regress,
- regression,
- relent,
- remission,
- retire,
- retreat,
- retrocede,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogress,
- retrogression,
- rise,
- rotate,
- run,
- run down,
- run low,
- sag,
- shake,
- shift,
- shrink,
- shrivel,
- sink,
- slacken,
- slide,
- slip,
- slippage,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- soar,
- soothe,
- spin,
- stand,
- stand off,
- standstill,
- stillstand,
- stir,
- stop,
- stream,
- subside,
- subsidence,
- switch,
- tail off,
- totter,
- touch bottom,
- tranquilize,
- travel,
- turn gray,
- turn white,
- wag,
- waggle,
- waning,
- waste,
- waste away,
- weaken,
- wear,
- wear away,
- whirl,
- widen the distance,
- withdraw,
- wither,
- wizen,
- wrinkle