Verbs that start with W

Wading is walking through water. Usually you wade through shallow water that is less than waist deep. Any deeper and it would be easier to swim.

Waiting is passing time until something happens. You often have to wait at a doctor's surgery, and sometimes you need to wait in a queue for something. People usually sit and read or just do nothing at all when they are waiting.

Something is waning when it is decreasing in size, intensity, strength or power. For example, "his health was waning". The picture is of the waning moon. The opposite of waning is waxing.

You waste something when you have it, but you don't use it, or you use it for less important things. Someone might waste their money by buying lots of pairs of shoes and then complaining later they have no money for other things. Waste is also leftovers, or something that is no longer needed and becomes trash. Anything you throw away is waste.

A plant has a weeping growth pattern if its branches hang downwards. Weep is also another word for cry or sob.