waning

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of wane

Adjective

• Becoming weaker or smaller.
• Of the lunar phase: as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.

Noun

• The fact or act of becoming less or less intense.
• The fact or act of becoming smaller.

Origin

• From Middle English waninge, alteration of earlier waniand, waniende, from Old English waniende, from Proto-Germanic *wanōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wanōną, equivalent to wane + -ing.
• From Middle English waning, waninge, wonunge, from Old English wanung, from Proto-Germanic *wanungō, equivalent to wane + -ing.