waning

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The fact or act of becoming less or less intense or present; fading.
    — the waning of her energy
  2. The fact or act of becoming smaller.
    — 17th century, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. R. B. This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of wane form-of,gerund,participle,present
形容词 adj.
  1. Becoming weaker or smaller. not-comparable
    — my patience is waning
  2. Of the lunar phase: as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth. not-comparable
    — the waning moon

词形变化

wanings plural

词汇关系

衍生词
waning gibbous waning moon

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English waning, waninge, wonunge, from Old English wanung (“waning; diminution”), from Proto-Germanic *wanungō, equivalent to wane + -ing.
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