Synonyms of the word

wane

• n. A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
• n. The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively…
• n. (literary) The end of a period.
• n. (woodworking) A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
• v. (intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
• v. (intransitive) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
• v. (intransitive, astronomy) Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where…
• v. (intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to decrease.
• n. (Scotland, slang) A child.
• n. (chiefly Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) A house or dwelling.

decline

• n. Downward movement, fall.
• n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
• n. A weakening.
• n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
• v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
• v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
• v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
• v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
• v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
• v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
• v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
• v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

decrease

• v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
• n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

diminish

• v. (transitive) To make smaller.
• v. (intransitive) To become smaller.
• v. To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).
• v. (intransitive) To taper.
• v. (intransitive) To disappear gradually.
• v. To take away; to subtract.

diminution

• n. A lessening, decrease or reduction.
• n. The act or process of making diminutive.
• n. (music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.

ebb

• n. The receding movement of the tide.
• n. A gradual decline.
• n. A low state; a state of depression.
• n. A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syn. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
• v. (intransitive) to flow back or recede.
• v. (intransitive) to fall away or decline.
• v. (intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the…
• v. (transitive) To cause to flow back.
• adj. low, shallow.

ebbing

• v. present participle of ebb.
• n. The action of something that ebbs.

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

lessen

• v. (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
• v. (intransitive) To become less.