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  • Piper tried to respond, but her confidence started to wane.  (source)
    wane = decline (grow weaker)
  • In the waning moonlight I saw Jem swing his feet to the floor.  (source)
    waning = diminishing
  • His excitement waned a little.  (source)
    waned = diminished (grew weaker)
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  • I watched the early traffic rolling into the city's waning lights.  (source)
    waning = gradually going out (decreasing)
  • Allie was unable to recognize me at any time, and I admit my attention waned now and then, for most of my thoughts were of the day we had just spent.  (source)
    waned = diminished
  • All things wax and wane, even Nyx's children, her vampyres.  (source)
    wane = a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
  • And so, as July wanes on, I am forced from my attic bedroom to a cot on the screened back porch.  (source)
    wanes = has its remaining days diminish
  • But all the witcheries of that unwaning weather did not merely lend new spells and potencies to the outward world.†  (source)
    unwaning = steady (not declining or diminishing)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwaning means not and reverses the meaning of waning. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Soothed again, but only soothed to deeper gloom, Ahab, who had sterned off from the whale, sat intently watching his final wanings from the now tranquil boat.†  (source)
  • At last, to their right, the waning moon arose, and when it came up the wind died down, and the land was still.  (source)
    waning = diminishing
  • So the bulk of the earning came from our garage-door business, and that income waxed and waned with the seasons.  (source)
    waned = a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
  • Dog doings unfreeze, then wane, their icy lacework sallow with wornout pee.†  (source)
  • "We thought about marriage," she said. "How can you not when you live together for four years? But you know what? Over time, passion wanes, differences don't."  (source)
    wanes = gradually decreases
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I could lay claim to a log and make bad jokes, contribute gossip, wax and wane about group politics.  (source)
wane = wax and wane is an idiom meaning to speak at length with varying degrees of intensity
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