Wane

v. i.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Waned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Waning.]
	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. - Addison.
	2.	To decline; to fail; to sink. You saw but sorrow in its waning form. - Dryden. Land and trade ever will wax and wane together. - Sir J. Child.
v. t.	1.	To cause to decrease.
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. - South. Though the year be on the wane. - Keble.
	3.	An inequality in a board.
	4.	(Forestry) The natural curvature of a log or of the edge of a board sawed from a log.

Noun	1.	wane - a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) Synonyms: ebb, ebbing
Verb	1.	wane - grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned" Synonyms: go down, decline
	2.	wane - become smaller; "Interest in his novels waned" Antonyms: mount, wax, climb, rise - go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"
	3.	wane - decrease in phase; "the moon is waning" Antonyms: full, wax - increase in phase; "the moon is waxing"

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