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Word: wane
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
- woodworking A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
- literary The end of a period.
- Northern England|and|Scotland|obsolete A house or dwelling.
- slang A child.
- The lunar phase during which diminishes the sunlight-illuminated area of the moon's surface visible from Earth.
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Verb:
- archaic To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
- astronomy Said of the Moon as its through the phases of its monthly cycle during which its visible surface is progressively decrease.
- intransitive Said of a time comes to an end.
- intransitive Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
- intransitive To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
- obsolete To cause to decrease.
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