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say it: WAY-ning
waning is a noun and adjective meaning "a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent". It carries 2 recorded senses.
(of the Moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases
“after full moon comes the waning moon”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for waning come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.