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adjective

Definition of waningnext
as in declining

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waning

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noun

as in fading

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waning

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verb

present participle of wane
as in decreasing
to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually in the course of the evening the storm steadily waned

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for waning
  1. declining
  2. diminishing
  3. falling
  4. feeble
  5. precious
  6. decay
  7. shrinking
  8. deterioration
Adjective
  • While pruning, remove any winter damage, along with dead and declining growths, to allow new shoots to reform the plant.
    Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Mar. 2021
  • In order to reopen, counties must demonstrate declining prevalence of COVID-19, testing ability of 30 tests per 10,000 residents per week, contact tracing and isolation facilities.
    Fox News, Fox News, 15 May 2020
Definition of declining
Verb
  • Simultaneously, her greener-than-green sous chef Lucia (Barbie Ferreira) — another hire by Andreas — flirts up a storm with their financer and starts testing her new boss’s rapidly diminishing patience.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Chief among them is the war in Ukraine, where Moscow is intent on diminishing popular support among Americans for Ukrainian independence.
    Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of diminishing
Verb
  • Signs of destruction are clearly visible throughout its streets – shrapnel holes in facades, damage caused by falling debris, destruction caused by direct hits by rockets.
    Ivana Kottasová and Zeena Saifi, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
  • To counter falling snow levels, resorts are already turning to artificial snow machines, which further contribute to climate change through their expansive use of energy.
    BYRyan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of falling
Adjective
  • Low wages, high youth unemployment and a feeble social safety net mean China’s household spending is less than 40% of annual economic output, some 20 percentage points below the global average.
    Reuters, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The economy has been weighed down by the weakness of its industrial sector amid Russia’s shutdown in natural gas supplies after the invasion of Ukraine, as well as feeble Chinese demand and the car industry’s difficulties in pivoting to electric vehicles.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of feeble
Adjective
  • Good post for a mid- to late-November afternoon: 70 to 100 yards back in timber and along the thickest, nastiest ditch that leads out to crops. 59) Don’t waste precious rut-hunting time.
    Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Viewers joined Jenn with tears over Romeo's precious reaction to his dad coming home.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of precious
Noun
  • Adding low levels of fluoride to drinking water is widely considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century for its role in preventing tooth decay.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
  • More than half of Californians and nearly 75% of U.S. residents live in communities where fluoride has been added to drinking water to prevent tooth decay, an intervention hailed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control as one of the 20th century’s greatest public health achievements.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of decay
Verb
  • Steam pockets a 30% cut of every sale – shrinking to 25% or 20% for games selling more than $10 million or $50 million respectively.
    Stephen Pastis, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • But the community’s population has been shrinking for decades, and some families have sold their land to outsiders for vacation homes.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of shrinking
Noun
  • The Chinese ruling party's past anxieties over regime security played a significant role in the rapid deterioration of the bilateral relationship.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The deterioration in Volkswagen’s prospects point to worsening conditions in the private sector in Germany.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of deterioration
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