Word Finder - waning

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To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.

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Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.

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Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.

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Said of a time period that comes to an end.

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To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.

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To cause to decrease.

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Becoming weaker or smaller.

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his waning strength

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

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the waning moon

What little patience he had was waning fast.

It was hard to read his expression in the waning light.

Soon, however, Louis felt his power waning, and quitted Rome and Italy (1329).

However, signs of its waning popularity have started to appear across the globe.

The favour shown him by Marlborough did not deter Rivers from paying court to the Tories when it became evident that the Whig ascendancy was waning, and his appointment as constable of the Tower in 1710 on the recommendation of Harley and without Marlborough's knowledge was the first unmistakable intimation to the Whigs of their impending fall.

The first week after full, it is called waning gibbous.

By now, my confidence in the British burger is quickly waning.

Their liver grows bigger at full moon, like the tides rise then fall with the waning of the moon.

Vintage watch markets tend to flux like the waxing and waning of the moon.

Towards the end of the 90s and in the early 2000s, the Smashing Pumpkins were waning.

One by one, the Fellowship characters come together in Rivendell, the home of the Elves whose time is waning in Middle Earth.

When the struggle with France was renewed in May 1803, it became evident that as a war minister Addington was not a success; and when Pitt became openly hostile, the continued confidence of the king and of a majority in the House of Commons was not a sufficient counterpoise to the ministry's waning prestige.

The waning hemicycle is the yin side of the cycle.

The near absence of any mention of complex hunter-gatherers suggests that Mesolithic archeology's enthusiasm for this topic is waning.

Over the Salem river, very close to the horizon, a waning moon, about 40% full, was rising.

A waxing moon will have the Part of Fortune on the Ascendant and a waning moon will put it on the Descendant.

Indeed, the cult of Freudian psychoanalysis is only slowly waning.

At the waxing sextile and the waning trine of every cycle, when Pluto returns to Scorpio, such a protracted aspect happens.

Instead, it 's just added another black stain to the already sullied reputation of the waning superpower.

To plant flowers during a waning moon would not yield the best results.

Waning influence Callaghan was obliged to hold a general election, which was won by Margaret Thatcher 's Conservative Party.

I imagine a waning interest in contact is quite common.

Both grain and fruit harvests have been gathered as we give thanks for our harvest and acknowledge the waning power of the Sun.

Pausing from their work in the waning light, farmers spoke quietly of American intentions.

Some perceived the band as belonging to the waning Manchester pop scene, and consequently achieved a reputation for being insincere charlatans.

As a model the high fashion opportunities are waning, so Julie seeks a way to move modeling career in a new direction without giving up being in front of the camera.

The biography of Ray J tells the story of a musician who managed to breathe new life into a waning career with a little help from Kim Kardashian and VH1.

Vietnamese resistance to French colonialism marked the apogee of insurgent peasant nationalism in confrontation with the waning power of European empires.

The triple moon goddess symbol is comprised of two crescent moons and a full moon to represent the three aspects of the goddess through the waxing and waning of the moon.

In the 12th century the Matiere de France was waning, the Matiere de Bretagne waxing in popularity, and public opinion demanded that the central figure of the younger cycle (for whatever the date of the subject matter, as a literary cycle the Arthurian is the younger) should not be inferior in dignity and importance to that of the earlier.

In post-Vedic literature soma is a regular name for the moon, which is regarded as being drunk up by the gods and so waning, till it is filled up again by the sun.

Several causes contributed to this, among them the waning of the power of Spain, an exclusive commercial policy, dishonest administration, hostilities with the Chinese, ravages of the Malay pirates, and the growth of Dutch commerce.

In 1738 the waning power of Walpole and the approaching war with Spain caused Forbes of Culloden to propose the raising of four or five highland regiments for foreign service.

But since the re-establishment of the German empire in 1871 there has been, at least in intellectual circles, a certain waning of his popularity, the Germans of to-day realizing that Goethe more fully represents the aspirations of the nation.

They are Mahommedans; polygamy is practised only by the wealthier classes and is a waning institution.

This spirited policy restored the waning prestige of the Hat party and firmly established their anti-Muscovite system.

After securing, the election of her husband to the throne by wholesale bribery she virtually took the government into her hands and restored the waning influence of the monarchy over the nobles.

The second period is marked by a complete waning of Slavonic influence, through the literary activity of the Greek hospodars.

The exertions which he made to retrieve his waning influence proved too much for his strength, and in the autumn of 1891 he died suddenly at Brighton.

Then after the battle of Leipzig he deserted the waning fortunes of the French emperor, and by a treaty made with Metternich at Fulda in November 1813 he secured the confirmation of his royal title and of his recent acquisitions of territory,.

Solar and lunar myths usually account for the observed phenomena of eclipse, waning and waxing, sunset, spots on the moon, and so forth by various mythical adventures of the animated heavenly beings.

He calmly interjected himself with more drugs to supplement his waning strength then stripped out of the heavier weapons, opting for a knife and small laser gun.

Rome, however, had greater dangers to cope with than the indignant reproofs of her friends the monks, and the opposition Growth of of the bishops, who were displeased at the spectacle of their authority waning day by day.

The zodiac worked as a symbolic calendar divided into twelve parts, like the of 12 moons waxing and waning in a year.

The U2 can also be used for data storage and allows drag-and-drop file storage, a sadly waning feature on modern-day portable music players.

Whether its guns in school or the selling of drugs, there's no denying it -- teachers are on the frontlines of our waxing and waning crime rates.

In addition, game companies often use cheats to help stimulate waning interest in their products.

You can actually feel it in the air-crisp mornings, cool evenings, the sun waning lower and lower in the sky.

Symptoms that have a waning course with recurrences and worsen over time suggest a disease that destroys nerve cells.

The dolls, accessories and online adventures add to the appeal of this line of toys, but interest in the line appears to be waning.