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• on the wane — DECLINING, decreasing, diminishing, dwindling, shrinking, contracting, tapering off, subsiding, ebbing, fading away, dissolving, petering out, winding down, falling off, on the way out, receding, flagging, melting away, crumbling, withering,… …   Useful english dictionary

• on the wane — ► if something is on the wane, it is becoming weaker or less common: »Traditional employer funded pensions are on the wane. Main Entry: ↑wane …   Financial and business terms

• on the wane — ► on the wane becoming weaker or less vigorous. Main Entry: ↑wane …   English terms dictionary

• on the wane and on the wax — {adv. phr.} Decreasing and increasing. Said of the moon. * /The moon is regularly on the wane and on the wax at regular intervals lasting half a month./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• on the wane and on the wax — {adv. phr.} Decreasing and increasing. Said of the moon. * /The moon is regularly on the wane and on the wax at regular intervals lasting half a month./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• on\ the\ wane\ and\ on\ the\ wax — adv. phr. Decreasing and increasing. Said of the moon. The moon is regularly on the wane and on the wax at regular intervals lasting half a month …   Словарь американских идиом

• on the wane — decreasing, diminishing    The number of men who smoke is on the wane. It s decreasing …   English idioms

• on the wane — index decadent, dilapidated Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• on the wane — getting smaller, weaker, or less important Scott s interest in his career was on the wane …   English dictionary

• Wane — Wane, n. 1. The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator. [1913 Webster] 2. Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension. [1913 Webster] An age in which the church is in its wane. South. [1913 Webster] Though… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• wane — [wān] vi. waned, waning [ME wanien < OE wanian, to decrease, grow less, akin to wan, lacking: for IE base see WANT] 1. to grow gradually less in extent: said esp. of the visible face of the moon during the phases after full moon in which the… …   English World dictionary