Antonyms for wane
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1. wane

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

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

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1. ebb, ebbing, waneverb

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

   Antonyms:
   wax, climb, rise, mount, full

   Synonyms:
   ebbing, reflux, ebb

2. decline, go down, waneverb

   grow smaller

   "Interest in the project waned"

   Antonyms:
   wax, rise, full, climb, mount

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

3. waneverb

   become smaller

   "Interest in his novels waned"

   Antonyms:
   mount, full, rise, wax, climb

   Synonyms:
   go down, decline

4. waneverb

   decrease in phase

   "the moon is waning"

   Antonyms:
   full, wax, climb, rise, mount

   Synonyms:
   go down, decline

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1. wanenoun

   Synonyms:
   decrease, diminution, decrescence

2. waneverb

   Synonyms:
   decrease, diminish, fade

How to use wane in a sentence?

1. Paul Hunter:

   If the requirement on infected individuals to isolate at home is lifted as indicated, it will be an experiment which will either be shown to be very brave or very stupid, but nobody knows for sure what the result will be, omicron may be on the wane in Europe but other parts of Our World in Data are still in the full flush of a surge in infections. In such circumstances, as we have seen before, the virus is in the best possible position to mutate again, and there is absolutely no certainty that any new variant would be less dangerous.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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.

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