waning

• IPA^(key): /ˈweɪ.nɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ

From Middle English waninge, alteration of earlier waniand, waniende, from Old English waniende, from Proto-Germanic *wanōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wanōną (“to wane”), equivalent to wane +‎ -ing.

waning

1. present participle of wane

waning (not comparable)

1. Becoming weaker or smaller.

   his waning strength

2. Of the lunar phase: as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.

   the waning moon

From Middle English waning, waninge, wonunge, from Old English wanung (“waning; diminution”), from Proto-Germanic *wanungō, equivalent to wane +‎ -ing.

waning (plural wanings)

1. The fact or act of becoming less or less intense.

   the waning of her energy

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     Soothed again, but only soothed to deeper gloom, Ahab, who had sterned off from the whale, sat intently watching his final wanings from the now tranquil boat.

2. The fact or act of becoming smaller.
   • Bishop Hall

     This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses.

• awning

Cognates include Föhr-Amrum North Frisian wöning.

waning n (plural waninge)

1. (Mooring) window