Synonyms for wane
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1. wane

   Synonyms:
   fade, pale, decrease, diminish, decline, fail, sink, ebb, deteriorate, recede, pine, droop, attenuate, contract

   Antonyms:
   brighten, increase, improve, mend, advance, rally, develop, recover, expand

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1. ebb, ebbing, waneverb

   a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

   Synonyms:
   ebbing, reflux, ebb

   Antonyms:
   wax, climb, rise, mount, full

2. decline, go down, waneverb

   grow smaller

   "Interest in the project waned"

   Synonyms:
   reject, go down, come down, set, refuse, go under, settle, correct, sink, pass up, descend, fall, worsen, crash, decline, slump, turn down

   Antonyms:
   wax, rise, full, climb, mount

3. waneverb

   become smaller

   "Interest in his novels waned"

   Synonyms:
   go down, decline

   Antonyms:
   mount, full, rise, wax, climb

4. waneverb

   decrease in phase

   "the moon is waning"

   Synonyms:
   go down, decline

   Antonyms:
   full, wax, climb, rise, mount

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1. • Decrease

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1. waneverb

   Synonyms:
   decrease, diminish, grow less

2. waneverb

   Synonyms:
   decline, fail, sink

3. wanenoun

   Synonyms:
   diminution, decrease, lessening, abatement

4. wanenoun

   Synonyms:
   decline, declension, decay, failure, falling off

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1. wanenoun

   Synonyms:
   decrease, diminution, decrescence

2. waneverb

   Synonyms:
   decrease, diminish, fade

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1. David Cennimo:

   If they are really concerned about the potential for the vaccine to wane over six months, they may want to wait a few weeks but William Schaffner really don't want to go beyond middle October or the end of October, because of the risk of exposure to flu in William Schaffner area.

2. Jim Watson:

   The attention span of everyone tends to wane, and unless we sort of move quickly to do our best to get people involved and engaged and seek their financial support, it will be a missed opportunity.

3. Ilan Solot:

   The China story is going to continue. The conditions on the ground for this government-sponsored rally are still there and there's no reason to think anything's going to change now, but there's still a question over when the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise rates ... There's a risk the markets are underestimating the Fed's resolve. If the dollar gets traction again, that's when you're going to see this enthusiasm for emerging markets start to wane.

4. William Schaffner:

   They've been studied and we know that after you had a cold, you develop antibodies to that particular human strain of coronavirus and you will be protected, but it turns out the protection begins to wane after about a year.

5. Van Kerkhove:

   There's been more than 24 million cases reported to date. And we need to look at something like this on a population level. And so it's very important that we document this -- and that, in countries that can do this, if sequencing can be done, that would be very, very helpful. But we need to not jump to any conclusions, even if this is the first documented case of reinfection, it is possible of course because with our experience with other human coronaviruses, and the MERS coronavirus and the SARS-CoV-1 coronavirus, we know that people have an antibody response for some time but it may wane.