waning Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent
    • the waning of his enthusiasm was obvious
    • the waxing and waning of the moon
  2. verb grow smaller
    decline; go down; wane.
    • Interest in the project waned
  3. verb become smaller
    wane.
    • Interest in his novels waned
  4. verb decrease in phase
    wane.
    • the moon is waning
  5. verb become pale and sickly
    wan.
  6. adjective (of the Moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases
    • after full moon comes the waning moon

WordNet

Wan"ing noun
Definitions
  1. The act or process of waning, or decreasing.
    This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses. Bp. Hall.

Webster 1913