wane
Lose its grip
Wane means to decrease gradually in size, intensity, or power.
The moon wanes as it moves from full toward new, its visible portion shrinking nightly.
Interest wanes, enthusiasm wanes, influence wanes: His popularity waned after the scandal.
The noun appears in on the wane, meaning in decline.
The opposite is wax.
Become or make smaller
- diminishTo make smaller
- dwindleDecrease gradually over time
- subsideDecrease in intensity
- recedeMove back from
fade · weaken · lessen · shrink · drop · fall · slump · downturn
Natural planetary satellite
- crescentCurved sickle-like arc
- gibbousConvexly swollen shape
- phaseDistinct period in sequence
- cycleRepeating sequence of events
monthly · celestial · orbit · new moon · full moon · moonlight · lunar cycle · waxing
decrease
Become or make smaller
recede · fade · weaken · lessen · shrink · drop · fall · slump · downturn · recession
moon
Natural planetary satellite
cycle · monthly · celestial · orbit · new moon · full moon · moonlight · lunar cycle · waxing · quarter
tide
Ocean's cyclical swell
neap · low tide · seaward · withdrawal · tidal · shoreline · coastal · waterline · current · flow
grain
Cereal plant's harvest unit
sapwood · log · lumber · mill · plank · irregularity · taper · sawmill · timber · board
- declinesdrop, decline, downtrend, downturn, downfall
- Archaismsthee, thou, thy, thine, ye
- declinedecline, in decline, decrease, downswing, on the decline
- decreasesreduction, decline, drop, fall, decrease
- diminishingabate, decrease, diminish, dwindle, ebb
- fizzle outpeter out, taper off, dwindle, die away, ebb
- wax and waneFluctuate in cycles
- waning moonMoon after full, before new
- waxing and waningCyclical increase and decrease
- on the waneDecreasing in power
- waning immunityDecreasing bodily defense capacity
- waning crescentFinal lunar phase shown