waning
IPA: wˈeɪnɪŋ
noun
- The fact or act of becoming less or less intense or present; fading.
- The fact or act of becoming smaller.
adjective
- Becoming weaker or smaller.
- Of the lunar phase: as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.
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Examples of "waning" in Sentences
- Interest in mariachi music was waning.
- In feudal Japan, the era of the samurai is waning.
- Above the landscape, a rainbow forms in the waning light.
- By the early 1960s the communist Huk campaign was waning.
- By the end of the 1980s, the band's popularity was waning.
- However, the firm began to decline in the waning years under KeyCorp.
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