Wane vs. Wean

Wanenoun

A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.

Wanenoun

The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.

Wanenoun

(literary) The end of a period.

Wanenoun

(woodworking) A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.

Wanenoun

A child.

Wanenoun

A house or dwelling.

Waneverb

(intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.

Waneverb

(intransitive) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.

Waneverb

Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.

Waneverb

(intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.

Waneverb

To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.

Waneverb

To cause to decrease.

Waneverb

To be diminished; to decrease; - contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.

Waneverb

To decline; to fail; to sink.

Waneverb

To cause to decrease.

Wanenoun

The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.

Wanenoun

Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.

Wanenoun

An inequality in a board.

Wanenoun

The natural curvature of a log or of the edge of a board sawed from a log.

Wanenoun

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

Waneverb

grow smaller;

Waneverb

become smaller;

Waneverb

decrease in phase;

Waneverb

(of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size.

Waneverb

(of a state or feeling) decrease in vigour or extent; become weaker

Wanenoun

the amount by which a plank or log is bevelled or falls short of a squared shape

Weanverb

(transitive) To cease giving milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.

Weanverb

(intransitive) To cease to depend on the mother for nourishment.

Weanverb

To cause to quit something to which one is addicted or habituated.

Weanverb

To cease to depend.

Weannoun

A small child.

Weanverb

To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.

Weanverb

Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.

Weannoun

A weanling; a young child.

Weanverb

gradually deprive (infants) of mother's milk;

Weanverb

detach the affections of

Weanverb

accustom (an infant or other young mammal) to food other than its mother's milk.

Weanverb

accustom (someone) to managing without something which they have become dependent on

Weanverb

be strongly influenced by (something), especially from an early age

Weannoun

a young child.