1. Grow smaller
   "Interest in the project waned"
   - decline, go down 
2. Become smaller
   "Interest in his novels waned" 
3. Decrease in phase
   "the moon is waning"

1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
   - ebb, ebbing

Sounds like: wain, Wayne

Derived forms: waned, wanes, waning

See also: waning

Type of: decline, decrease, diminish, diminution, fall, lessen

Antonym: wax

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