0 past simple and past participle of wane
1 to become weaker in strength or influence:
By the late 70s the band's popularity was beginning to wane.
The public's interest in funding balloons peaked in the late 1780s, but never fully waned.
At 6 months of age, maternal antibodies had waned below cut-off values in approximately half of the infants.
During the last two decades, empirical supports for the analytic capabilities of unconscious cognition have gradually waned.
The need for knowledge in artisanship waned, to be replaced by a need for ingenuity in the utilisation and adaptation of 'ready to use' components.
However, when a party's strength was not clearly dominant or waned in a region, that party lost the elections.
They had their opportunity but failed, and their power then gradually waned.
The space for such informal and personalised negotiations, however, seems to have waned.
But its lustre waned as rapidly as it had been acquired a few years earlier.
