waning
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English waninge, alteration of earlier waniand, waniende, from Old English waniende, from Proto-Germanic *wanōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wanōną (“to wane”), equivalent to wane + -ing.
Verb
[edit]waning
- present participle and gerund of wane
Adjective
[edit]waning (not comparable)
- Becoming weaker or smaller.
- his waning strength
- Of the lunar phase: as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.
- the waning moon
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]becoming weaker or smaller
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of the lunar phase
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English waning, waninge, wonunge, from Old English wanung (“waning; diminution”), from Proto-Germanic *wanungō, equivalent to wane + -ing.
Noun
[edit]waning (plural wanings)
- The fact or act of becoming less or less intense or present; fading.
- the waning of her energy
- 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
- And boyhood is a summer sun
Whose waning is the dreariest one —
For all we live to know is known
And all we seek to keep hath flown — […]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- Soothed again, but only soothed to deeper gloom, Ahab, who had sterned off from the whale, sat intently watching his final wanings from the now tranquil boat.
- The fact or act of becoming smaller.
- 17th century, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. R. B.
- This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses.
- 17th century, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. R. B.
Translations
[edit]becoming weaker or smaller
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The fact or act of becoming smaller
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Anagrams
[edit]North Frisian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- wöning (Föhr-Amrum)
- Wining (Sylt)
Etymology
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Noun
[edit]waning n (plural waninge)
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- Mooring North Frisian