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# waning

«waning» in Mova's school dictionary: **the -ing form of «wane»: getting smaller or weaker little…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (wane, wanes, waned, waning); adjective (a waning moon)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Waning is the -ing form of «wane»: getting smaller or weaker little by little. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waning/#m1)

2) The waning moon is the moon in the part of its cycle after the full moon, when the lit-up part we see gets smaller each night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waning/#m2)

3) Interest, light, strength or power that is waning is slowly fading away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waning/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons the phases of the moon are «waxing» (growing) and «waning» (shrinking); a waning crescent comes just before the new moon. In everyday life and stories it describes something fading: waning light at dusk, waning interest, waning energy at the end of a long day. Phrases: «waning moon», «waning crescent», «waning gibbous», «on the wane».

### examples

- Tonight the moon is waning, so it looks thinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waning/#x1)
- A waning crescent rises late at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waning/#x2)
- The light was waning as we walked home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waning/#x3)
- His interest in the game was waning after an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waning/#x4)
- By the end of the race her energy was waning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waning/#x5)
- The storm was waning, and the rain grew softer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waning/#x6)
- After the full moon comes the waning gibbous moon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waning/#x7)
- The king's power was on the wane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waning/#x8)
- ‘Make one more struggle; it is nearly over now,’ said the horse, seeing that Petru’s strength was waning fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waning/#x9)

### note

Opposite: waxing (growing). The moon itself does not change size; we just see less of its sunlit side. «Wane» is mainly used about the moon, light and feelings, not about objects you could measure with a ruler. Do not mix with «warning» (telling someone about danger) — they look alike.

### In the corpora

- [A growing Moon is waxing and a shrinking one is waning, and from Britain a waxing Moon is lit on its right side.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/7-phases-eclipses-and-tides/7/)
- [A waxing moon grows bigger each night, and a waning moon grows smaller.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/3-the-moon-and-its-phases/12/)
- [A Moon that looks bigger each night is waxing; a Moon that looks smaller each night is waning.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/119-moon-month-and-year/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «waning» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waning/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.