Usually means: Decrease in size, extent, power.
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  1. wane: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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  3. wane, wane: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wane: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. wane: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wane: Wiktionary
  10. wane: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wane: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  14. wane: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wane: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Wane: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wane: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wane: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  21. wane: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. wane: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. wane: FreeDictionary.org
  24. wane: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  25. wane: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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noun:  A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
noun:  The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
noun:  (literary) The end of a period.
noun:  (woodworking) A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
verb:  (intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
verb:  (intransitive) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
verb:  (intransitive, astronomy) Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
verb:  (intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cause to decrease.
noun:  (Scotland, slang) A child.
noun:  (chiefly Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) A house or dwelling.

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