Dictionary Entry
wane
wane is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
- 2intransitive verb
To decline; to fail; to sink.
- 3transitive verb
To cause to decrease.
- 4noun
The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
- 5noun
Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
- 6noun
An inequality in a board.
- 7noun
a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
- 8verb
grow smaller
"Interest in the project waned"
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- 9verb
decrease in phase
"the moon is waning"
- 10verb
become smaller
"Interest in his novels waned"
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