wanes

Wanes is a verb that means to gradually decrease or disappear. The moon wanes as it goes from full to new.

  • The number of students that are at school wanes each year.

  • The number of customers at the store wanes each month.

Definition of wanes

noun

a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

Synonyms:

ebb, ebbing

verb

grow smaller

Synonyms:

decline, go down

verb

become smaller

verb

decrease in phase

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Example Sentences for wanes

  • 1

    What is the cause it waned

  • 2

    Interest in mariachi music was waning.

  • 3

    The power of the kingdom began to wane.

  • 4

    By the end of the 1980s, the band's popularity was waning.

  • 5

    In feudal Japan, the era of the samurai is waning.

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    The popularity of panel vans waned in the 1980s.

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    Above the landscape, a rainbow forms in the waning light.

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    By the 1880s the influence of the Sheffield FA started to wane.

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    By the early 1960s the communist Huk campaign was waning.

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    By the fall of 1974 Glitter Rock was waning in popularity.