[ UK /wˈe‍ɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈweɪn/ ]
VERB
  1. decrease in phase
    the moon is waning
  2. grow smaller
    Interest in the project waned
  3. become smaller
    Interest in his novels waned
NOUN
  1. a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
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How To Use wane In A Sentence

  • Ka go realo, ke laetša gore sela se bego se dirwa maloba sa go hlakiša dinaga tša baagelwane se fetogile. SPEECH BY MS SD MOTUBATSE-HOUNKPATIN DURING THE DEBATE ON PAN AFRICAN PARLIAMENT
  • But protecting the right of a people to run no-accounts out of office and to have a real voice in decisions that affect them is dear to US and Taiwanese hearts.
  • He describes himself sitting in a room with five children, aged ten to twelve, showing them a Taiwanese water dipping bird toy -- the little chotchke that tips back and forth into a well of water as though it's drinking. Susan Stiffelman: Education, Seth Godin, Factory Workers and the Taiwanese Water Bird
  • For it is through believing that the sun rises and sets, the moon passes and wanes, the rain falls and sunbeams pour down that allows the order and sequence of events to happen.
  • Once well-deserved celebrations waned, the daunting task of finding a space loomed large.
  • Through it all there is a strand of political activism that waxes and wanes, but never disappears.
  • the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh
  • It cannot have gone unnoticed that our global power has waned in tandem with the waning of our pants. Times, Sunday Times
  • Australian authorities have found no signs of foul play aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat found adrift and abandoned off western Australia.
  • When, for example, Karl and I made the simulation more realistic and allowed for mutations, or mistakes in an evolving population of players, then we saw cooperation and defection wax and wane over time, as those with a good reputation are actually undermined by indiscriminate altruists who help anyone, no matter how well or badly the latter have behaved in the past. SuperCooperators
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