Difference between Weaken and Wane

WEAKEN vs WANE: NOUN

The act or process of gradually declining or diminishing.
A time or phase of gradual decrease.
The period of the decrease of the moon's illuminated visible surface.
A defective edge of a board caused by remaining bark or a beveled end.
A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
The end of a period.
The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes less visible from Earth.
Periodic decrease of the illuminated part of the moon; period of decreasing illumination.
Decline; failure; declension.
A beveled edge of a board or plank as sawn from an unsquared log, the bevel being caused by curvature of the log.
Same as wone.
A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
A child.
A house or dwelling.
The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
An inequality in a board.
The natural curvature of a log or of the edge of a board sawed from a log.

Decrease in phase
Become smaller
Grow smaller
To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
Said of the Moon as its through the phases of its monthly cycle during which its visible surface is progressively decrease.
Said of a time period that comes to an end.
To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.

To become weak or weaker; to lose strength, spirit, or determination; to become less positive or resolute.

To approach an end.
To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
To show a progressively smaller illuminated area, as the moon does in passing from full to new.
To decrease gradually in size, number, strength, or intensity.
To decline; to fail; to sink.

To reduce in quality, strength, or spirit.
To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate.

To make weak or weaker; lesson or reduce the strength, power, ability, influence, or quality of: as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken a solution or infusion by dilution; to weaken the force of an argument.
To become weak or weaker: as, he weakens from day to day.
(transitive; intransitive verb) To make or become weak or weaker.

To decrease; be diminished: applied particularly to the periodical lessening of the illuminated part of the moon: opposed to wax.
To decline; fail; sink; approach an end.
To cause to decrease: lessen.
Wanting; lack ing; deficient.
(idiom) (on the wane) In a period of decline or decrease.

Undercut, Worsen, Diminish, Erode, De escalate, Step down, Countermine, Damp, Break, Counteract, Sabotage, Subvert, Soften, Dampen, Undermine

Decrease, Fall, Lessen, Waver, Weaken, Abate, Slacken, Falter, Diminish, Fade, Dwindle, Go down, Decline, Ebb, Ebbing

Hamper, Hinder, Cripple, Undercut, Worsen, Diminish, Erode, Countermine, Damp, Break, Counteract, Subvert, Soften, Dampen, Undermine

Reduce, Decay, Decrease, Fall, Lessen, Weaken, Abate, Slacken, Falter, Diminish, Fade, Go down, Decline, Ebb, Ebbing

There are traumas in life that weaken us.
Stretching the truth will only weaken your case.
Muscles tend to shorten and weaken with age.
It can even weaken the entire immune system.
Virtually all knots weaken line in various degrees.
All of that can weaken your lash lift.
Farm laws will weaken mandi system: Sharad Pawar.
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Gaonic authority and caliphal authority were, the ga on implied, bound up with each other: weaken one and you weaken the other.
To weaken one is to weaken the other.

But even then his interest began to wane.
Islamic civilization and the last one to wane.
Upper Missouti Agency tribes was on the wane.
Virginia may be on the wane were misleading.
ANT: Dimmish, recede, contract, fail, stop, die, wane.
Crowds wane come October, bringing cheaper lodging options.
Interest in taking action can wax and wane.
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American mixology in general was on the wane.
Orthodox Islam is on the wane pretty much like every orthodox religion is on the wane.