To decrease gradually in size, number, strength, or intensity
Interest in the subject waned.
To show a progressively smaller illuminated area, as the moon does in passing from full to new.
To approach an end
The day began to wane.
The act or process of gradually declining or diminishing.
A time or phase of gradual decrease.
The period of the decrease of the moon's illuminated visible surface.
A defective edge of a board caused by remaining bark or a beveled end.
A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
(literary) The end of a period.
(woodworking) A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
A child.
A house or dwelling.
(intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
(intransitive) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
(intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.
To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
To cause to decrease.
a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
grow smaller;
Interest in the project waned
become smaller;
Interest in his novels waned
decrease in phase;
the moon is waning
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.
To decline; to fail; to sink.
You saw but sorrow in its waning form.
Land and trade ever will wax and wane together.
To cause to decrease.
The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
An age in which the church is in its wane.
Though the year be on the wane.
An inequality in a board.
The natural curvature of a log or of the edge of a board sawed from a log.
