wane-v; 2 Senses

Sense Number 1: decline, grow smaller

Examples:
By this time he was sweating profusely himself, but his enthusiasm would not wane.
While his significance and influence have waxed and waned his importance to national identity has rarely been questioned.
But by the 1940s, Hopper's interest in depicting sophisticated and urbane themes had waned.

Mappings:
VerbNet: entity_specific_cos-45.5
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: wane.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2

Sense Number 2: decrease in phase

Examples:
The moon waned.
Each month represents the time for the moon to wax and wane from a new moon to a full moon and back.

Mappings:
VerbNet: entity_specific_cos-45.5
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: wane.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3