Definitions for wanes

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Spelling: [weyn]

IPA: /weɪn/

Wanes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in wanes (aensw).

Definitions for wanes

noun

1. a gradual decrease or decline in strength, intensity, power, etc.
2. the drawing to a close of life, an era, a period, etc.
3. the waning of the moon.
4. a period of waning.
5. a defect in a plank or board characterized by bark or insufficient wood at a corner or along an edge, due to the curvature of the log.

Idioms

1. on the wane, decreasing; diminishing:

verb (used without object)

1. to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.:
2. to decline in power, importance, prosperity, etc.:
3. to draw to a close; approach an end:
4. (of the moon) to decrease periodically in the extent of its illuminated portion after the full moon. Compare wax2 (def 2).

Origin of wanes

before 900; Middle English wanen (v.), Old English wanian to lessen; cognate with Middle Dutch, Middle High German wanen, Old Norse vana to cause to wane, destroy

Examples for wanes

The South can block some things, but eventually even that power will wane.

On defense, Republican small government orthodoxy tends to wane.

Perhaps not, said the voice, but if her love should wane how would you rekindle it?

Until last night, the conventional wisdom in Washington was that the Tea Party was on the wane.

Today, liberal Protestantism is on the wane, and optimistic postmillennialism along with it.

It had made him apprehensive, and he wondered if his influence over her was on the wane.

And that both commercial nuns and Gorgeous Girls must be on the wane.

Religion, true spiritual religion was on the wane in England.

There is also statistical evidence to suggest that FGM may be on the wane.

Thirdly, we were to emphasise to the men that Turkish morale was on the wane.