英语词汇“on the wane”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

on the wane

Becoming weaker or less extensive: the epidemic was on the wane...

Predictably, there are now encouraging signs that the epidemic is on the wane as sales slowly begin to pick up again.
The boss of the district's own low cost airline today scorned suggestions the sector was on the wane after rival Ryanair announced a profit slump.
Although exploration in the North Sea is on the wane, Wood does not believe Aberdeen will decline as an oil centre.

Synonyms

declining, on the decline, decreasing, diminishing, dwindling, shrinking, contracting, tapering off, tailing off, subsiding, slackening, drooping, sinking, ebbing, dimming, fading away, growing faint, lessening, dissolving, petering out, winding down, falling off, attenuating, on the way out, abating, failing, receding, slumping, in a slump, in remission, flagging, atrophying, weakening, giving way, melting away, deteriorating, in a state of deterioration, crumbling, withering, disintegrating, degenerating, evaporating, collapsing, drawing to a close, vanishing, dying out, obsolescent, moribund

informal on one's last legs

rare evanescing

See parent entry: wane

单词	on the wane
释义	on the wane Becoming weaker or less extensive: the epidemic was on the wane... Predictably, there are now encouraging signs that the epidemic is on the wane as sales slowly begin to pick up again. The boss of the district's own low cost airline today scorned suggestions the sector was on the wane after rival Ryanair announced a profit slump. Although exploration in the North Sea is on the wane, Wood does not believe Aberdeen will decline as an oil centre. Synonyms declining, on the decline, decreasing, diminishing, dwindling, shrinking, contracting, tapering off, tailing off, subsiding, slackening, drooping, sinking, ebbing, dimming, fading away, growing faint, lessening, dissolving, petering out, winding down, falling off, attenuating, on the way out, abating, failing, receding, slumping, in a slump, in remission, flagging, atrophying, weakening, giving way, melting away, deteriorating, in a state of deterioration, crumbling, withering, disintegrating, degenerating, evaporating, collapsing, drawing to a close, vanishing, dying out, obsolescent, moribund informal on one's last legs rare evanescing See parent entry: wane
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