0 present participle of wane --
1 to become weaker in strength or influence: --
By the late 70s the band's popularity was beginning to wane.
In countries with well-established vaccine programmes, the lack of circulating wild virus may not boost immune responses, resulting in waning immunity.
With a waning confidence in local governments' and officials' ability to rule, these older men may gain renewed local political importance.
The greatest value of this book lies in the record of rapidly waning or extinct practices.
However, the rate of waning immunity was assumed to be equal for both immunity to disease and to carriage.
Our estimations did not take into account waning of antibodies over lifetime.
By the close of the decade, however, enthusiasm for fetal intervention was waning.
However, the use of diversified agricultural systems was already waning as other factors created even larger economic incentives favoring specialization.
Such trends echo many contemporary studies of intensifiers which show that very is waning while really is dominant.
