Synonym: abate, decline, decrease, diminish, lessen, recede, reduce, subside. Antonym: wax. Similar words: want, wanna, wander, wanton, swanky, now and then, wanting, wanderlust. Meaning: [weɪn] n. a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number). v. 1. grow smaller 2. become smaller 3. decrease in phase.
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31. The influence of government agents and chief headmen, on the wane since 1920, declined still further.
32. But I could see that the moon above my head was really on the wane.
33. The vocational profession of Alpine shepherd is on the wane, an arduous life with unreliable income.
34. But the conservatives' influence has lately seemed on the wane.
35. In the weeks beforehand, Mr Murdoch's use of e-mail had been on the wane.
36. Was his love already on the wane?
37. As seasons wax and wane.
38. Her feelings for John wax and wane.
39. The sick man's strength is on the wane.
40. Why should the moon have wax and wane?
41. His fortune is on the wane.
42. The wax and wane of the moon cause tides.
43. He was nominally Deputy Prime Minister, certainly, but his influence was clearly on the wane.
44. They also provide much more flexible back up than coal for renewable energy supplies which wax and wane with the sun and wind – a safer bet for the future?
45. Doctors don't know what causes chronic fatigue syndrome, characterized by debilitating fatigue and chronic pain with symptoms that can wax and wane over time.
46. School and home seemed to recede from us and their influences upon us seemed to wane.
47. And men, nations, doctrines, what you will, wax and wane by analogous acts of selection.
48. The vitality of Latin was doomed to wane before the rivalry of the vernacular tongue.
49. The fortunes of insurgent groups wax and wane, their support base shrinking and expanding depending on how vulnerable sectarian groups feel.
50. When you lower the head instantaneous, only then detected that under foot's road, in heart that freedom world, like this limpid lofty, is being in full bloom never on the wane, the blue lotus flower.
51. In this paper, the relations between the earths absorption wane and the communication distance of seismic wave, frequence, time and medium velocity are discussed.
52. Six elder brothers seeing by the red and swollen fast wane in the mirror and can not help jubilantly merry, dancing and ticket.
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53. And as drug companies see profits beginning to wane from mainstays like Lipitor, the high prices that cancer drugs can command have become an irresistible lure.
54. Fisher has devoted much of her career to studying the biochemical pathways of love in all its manifestations: lust, romance, attachment, the way they wax and wane.
55. In the second quarter of this century, enthusiasm for the observational approach began to wane.
56. With the wane of the afternoon went her hopes, her courage, and her strength.
57. Beneath the heavenly sphere this solar cycle is mirrored in the lunar cycle of wax and wane and tidal ebb and flood.
58. "Reunion", the theme song of "Wax and Wane", by Ron Ng.
59. The [protracted] episode illustrates how public health scares wax and wane.
60. The romanticism "Gotterdammerung" has since been on the wane after Wagner.