The difference between Wane and Wax

Wane as a noun:

A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.

Wane as a noun:

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.

Wane as a noun (literary):

The end of a period.

Wane as a noun (woodworking):

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

Wane as a verb (intransitive):

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

Wane as a verb (intransitive):

Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.

Wane as a verb (intransitive, astronomy):

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

Wane as a verb (intransitive):

Said of a time period that comes to an end.

Wane as a verb (intransitive, archaic):

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

Wane as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

To cause to decrease.

Wane as a noun (Scotland, slang):

A child.

Wane as a noun (chiefly, Northern England, and, Scotland, obsolete):

A house or dwelling.

Wax as a noun:

Beeswax.

Wax as a noun:

Earwax.

Wax as a noun:

Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.

Wax as a noun:

Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.

Wax as a noun (uncountable):

The phonograph record format for music.

Wax as a noun (US, dialect):

A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.

Wax as a noun (US, slang):

A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil

Wax as an adjective:

Made of wax.

Wax as a verb (transitive):

To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.

Wax as a verb (transitive):

To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.

Wax as a verb (transitive, informal):

To defeat utterly.

Wax as a verb (transitive, slang):

To kill, especially to murder a person.

Wax as a verb (transitive, archaic, usually, of a musical or oral performance):

To record.

Wax as a verb (intransitive):

To increase (phase of the Moon or other planet). Example The Moon is waxing.

Wax as a verb (intransitive, with adjective):

To increasingly assume the specified characteristic, become.

Wax as a verb (intransitive, literary):

To grow.

Wax as a verb (intransitive, of the [[moon]]):

To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.

Wax as a verb (intransitive, of the [[tide]]):

To move from low tide to high tide.

Wax as a noun (rare):

The process of growing.

Wax as a noun (dated, colloquial):

An outburst of anger.