Word Meanings - WANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

wanien, AS. wanian, wonian, from wan, won, deficient, wanting; akin to D. wan-, G. wahnsinn, insanity, OHG. wan, wana-, lacking, wan to lessen, Icel. vanr lacking, Goth. vans; cf. Gr. wanting, inferior. 1. To be diminished; to decrease;

Additional info about word: WANE

wanien, AS. wanian, wonian, from wan, won, deficient, wanting; akin to D. wan-, G. wahnsinn, insanity, OHG. wan, wana-, lacking, wan to lessen, Icel. vanr lacking, Goth. vans; cf. Gr. wanting, inferior. 1. To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon. Like the moon, aye wax ye and wane. Waning moons their settled periods keep. Addison. 2. To decline; to fail; to sink. You saw but sorrow in its waning form. Dryden. Land and trade ever will wax and wane together. Sir J. Child.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WANE)

• Decay Decline
• wane
• sink
• dwindle
• rot
• wither
• perish
• waste
• ebb
• decrease
• Decrease Diminish
• lessen
• subside
• abate
• lower
• decline
• retrench
• curtail
• reduce
• Die
• Expire
• depart
• decease
• disappear
• languish
• fade
• decay
• cease
• Ebb
• Retire
• recede
• sick
• Waste
• Ruin
• destroy
• devastate
• impair
• consume
• squander
• dissipate
• throw away
• diminish
• lavish
• desolate
• pine
• attenuate
• shrivel

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WANE)

• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge
• Increase
• amplify
• augment
• extend
• People
• colonize
• plant
• develop
• fertilize
• cultivate
• enrich
• enliven
• Husband
• store
• keep
• retain
• accumulate
• hoard
• treasure
• spare
• Hoist
• raise
• heighten
• exalt
• aggrandize
• elevate

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  One who lays up or forms a store.
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• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• DESOLATE
  1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• ACCUMULATE
  To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• PERISHMENT
  The act of perishing. Udall.
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• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• SUPPLANT
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• WILLOWER
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• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
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• CAULIFLOWER
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• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
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• ARCHTREASURER
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• MISRAISE
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