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waning:: | Spocien Dictionary
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after full moon comes the waning moon.
Examples of waning
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Burgesser grabbed the rebound and scored the tying basket in the waning seconds.
From the denverpost.com
Now, thanks to the glacial pace of change, Japan's relevance globally is waning.
From the businessweek.com
The occasion marked the waning of the era of riverboat building, if not its end.
From the time.com
Lambi told me the momentum for making changes seems to be waning among aldermen.
From the stltoday.com
Barclays Capital analysts hit back at suggestions that demand for oil is waning.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Barraza and Oropeza finally broke down the Poudre defense in the waning moments.
From the denverpost.com
The market crash may be dealing that already waning concept a final, fatal blow.
From the time.com
You can enable an alarm to notify you with a sound when battery power is waning.
From the chron.com
They sat silently and stared under a waning sun as Mr. Abdullah made his appeal.
From the washingtontimes.com
- Decline: grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"
- Ebb: a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
- Decrease in phase; "the moon is waning"
- A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc; The lunar phase during which diminishes the sunlight-illuminated area of the moon's surface visible from Earth; The end of a period; A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark; To progressively lose its splendor, value, ...
- Bark, or lack of wood from any cause, on edge or corner of a piece of wood.
- An edge of a sawn board where the bark or surface of the trunk remains.
- Decrease of the illuminated portion of a object as observed from Earth. The waning moon refers to that portion of the lunar revolution between full and new. Opposite of wax.
- Verb: Grow weaker; decrease. Also see wax.
- To decrease. "On the wane:" in the process of decreasing or disappearing.
