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.
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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61. Shortly after, hysteria's explanatory powers would wane, overtaken by Sigmund Freud's notion of penis envy.
62. As time went on, ( so ) their hopes began to wane.
63. If you ask any married person, he or she will tell you that marriages wax and wane .
64. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Industrial metal copper's tighter supply/demand balance is in jeopardy of unraveling if global economic conditions worsen and top importer China's demand continues to wane.
65. That may be because film is so much younger than the other great art forms, which have had centuries to wane, wax, mutate and cross-pollinate.
66. Certainly, some of the facts at hand are valid; for example, the Maya did have a Long Count calendar, pole-shift theory does exist, and solar activity does wax and wane.
67. Feelings of love may wax and wane during a relationship, but trust is constant.
68. So do the dual forces of the Tao wax and wane in the alternation of upward and downward cycles, intercrossing.
69. Whatever popularity Esperanto has enjoyed is now on the wane.
70. Inventories likely will be worked off and apparent consumption growth will wane in coming months.
71. By measuring changes in the light reflected from the clouds, they found that the clouds appear to wax and wane in prevalence over a 27-day cycle.
72. While the ancient Europeans set the beginning of a year by measuring solar movement[sentencedict.com], my ancestors did so by observing the lunar wax and wane.
73. It mastered her for a moment, and then, held close as she was, began to wane.
74. The popularity of each of the various Java IDEs has tended to wax and wane in the race to provide new features, improve performance, and become easier to use.
75. We investigated on species composition, distribution, wax and wane of Ixodoidea and Isolated from Lyme disease spirochetes in eight cities and counties of Jiangsu province.
76. The good news is that the disorder may be on the wane, with the Apiary Inspectors of America reporting that deaths from CCD are below 30% for the first time since the crisis began.
77. In addition, goblet cells have been shown to wax and wane over the natural history of BE.
78. The star power of British celebrities to be on the wane.
79. But since then Mr Rove's star has been on the wane.
80. The prosperity of the country's shipping industry was on the wane.
81. When the interest in art began to wane, the two fell to talking.
82. It could also embody the historic process that the thearchy of emperor was on the wane and the folk religion gained in strength in the Pre-Qin, Qin and Han Dynasties.
83. India has its own great-power ambitions and Japan is concerned that "its influence in the region will wane, " Mr. Ho explains.