Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to wane
Participle: waned
Gerund: waning
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | wane |
| you | wane |
| he;she;it | wanes |
| we | wane |
| you | wane |
| they | wane |
Perfect
| I | have waned |
| you | have waned |
| he;she;it | has waned |
| we | have waned |
| you | have waned |
| they | have waned |
Past
| I | waned |
| you | waned |
| he;she;it | waned |
| we | waned |
| you | waned |
| they | waned |
Pluperfect
| I | had waned |
| you | had waned |
| he;she;it | had waned |
| we | had waned |
| you | had waned |
| they | had waned |
Future
| I | will wane |
| you | will wane |
| he;she;it | will wane |
| we | will wane |
| you | will wane |
| they | will wane |
Future Perfect
| I | will have waned |
| you | will have waned |
| he;she;it | will have waned |
| we | will have waned |
| you | will have waned |
| they | will have waned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | wane |
| you | wane |
| he;she;it | wane |
| we | wane |
| you | wane |
| they | wane |
Perfect
| I | have waned |
| you | have waned |
| he;she;it | have waned |
| we | have waned |
| you | have waned |
| they | have waned |
Imperfect
| I | waned |
| you | waned |
| he;she;it | waned |
| we | waned |
| you | waned |
| they | waned |
Pluperfect
| I | had waned |
| you | had waned |
| he;she;it | had waned |
| we | had waned |
| you | had waned |
| they | had waned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would wane |
| you | would wane |
| he;she;it | would wane |
| we | would wane |
| you | would wane |
| they | would wane |
Perfect
| I | would have waned |
| you | would have waned |
| he;she;it | would have waned |
| we | would have waned |
| you | would have waned |
| they | would have waned |
Imperative
| you | wane |
| we | Let's wane |
| you | wane |
Verbs conjugated like 'wane'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'wane'
bane,
cane,
gane,
pane,
wade,
wage,
wake,
wale,
wan,
wand,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- diminish in force or intensity
- abate, alleviate, assuage, decline, ebb, mitigate, relax, subside, temper
- to become worse
- break down, decline, degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, fade, fall off, go bad, go downhill, go off, go to hell, go to pot, go to seed, go to the dogs, lapse, molder, retrograde, shrivel, suffer, worsen, wither
- decline
- dwindle, decrease, fade, diminish, subside, abate, sink, fail
Antonyms
- decline
- rise, increase, improve
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
wanian "make or become smaller gradually," from P.Gmc.
*wanojanan (cf. O.S.
wanon, O.N.
vana, O.Fris.
wania, M.Du.
waenen, O.H.G.
wanon "to wane, to grow less"), from
*wano- "lacking," from PIE
*we-no-, from base
*eue- "to leave, abandon, give out" (see vain).
2. From Middle English wanen, wanien, from Old English wanian, wonian, from Proto-West Germanic *wanōn, from Proto-Germanic *wanōną. See: Old English '
wanian', Proto-Germanic '
*wanōną'.
Verbs referencing "wane"
Latin
vanesco.
Sample Sentences
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[...] on, on, on they jogged, hour after hour. The child soon fell asleep, and lay heavily in his mother's lap. The poor, frightened old woman at last forgot her fears; and, even Eliza, as the night waned, found all her anxieties insufficient to keep her eyes from closing. Phineas seemed, on the whole, the briskest of the company, and beguiled his long drive with whistling certain very unquaker-like [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)