wane

wane
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • WANE — may refer to:*wane, decreasing intensity e.g. wax and wane , means increasing decreasing intensity*Taylor Wane (born 1968), British pornographic actress and model*WANE TV, a television station in Fort Wayne, Indiana* Wax and Wane , 1982 song from …   Wikipedia

  • 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;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 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 Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • wane — ► VERB 1) (of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size. 2) decrease in vigour or extent; become weaker. ● on the wane Cf. ↑on the wane ORIGIN Old English, «lessen»;… …   English terms dictionary

  • wane — [wān] vi. waned, waning [ME wanien < OE wanian, to decrease, grow less, akin to wan, lacking: for IE base see WANT] 1. to grow gradually less in extent: said esp. of the visible face of the moon during the phases after full moon in which the… …   English World dictionary

  • Wane — Wane, v. t. To cause to decrease. [Obs.] B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • wane — (v.) O.E. wanian make or become smaller gradually, from P.Gmc. *wanojanan (Cf. O.S. wanon, O.N. vana, O.Fris. wania, M.Du. waenen, O.H.G. wanon to wane, to grow less ), from *wano lacking, from PIE *we no , from root *eue …   Etymology dictionary

  • wane — index decline, decline (fall), decrease (noun), decrease (verb), degenerate, deteriorate, diminish, ebb …   Law dictionary

  • Wane — Sm Angehöriger eines nordischen Göttergeschlechts per. Wortschatz fach. (19. Jh.) Entlehnung. Übernommen aus anord. vanr, dessen Deutung umstritten ist.    Ebenso ne. ( Pl.) Vanir, nschw. van, nisl. Vanur. nord …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • wane — *abate, subside, ebb Analogous words: *decrease, dwindle, lessen, diminish Antonyms: wax Contrasted words: *increase, augment: mount, soar, tower, surge, *rise …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • wane — [v] diminish, lessen abate, atrophy, decline, decrease, die away, die down, die out, dim, draw to a close*, drop, dwindle, ease off, ebb, fade, fade away, fail, fall, fall short, let up, moderate, peter out*, relent, shrink, sink, slacken, slack… …   New thesaurus

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