wax(MOON)formal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Becoming and making less strong
abate
abatement
adulterant
adulterate
adulterated
be fading away/fastidiom
downtoner
dull
ease
emasculation
enervate
enervating
hedge
melt
relieve
tone something down
totter
tottering
turn to jellyidiom
undimmed

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Examples of waning

waning

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Despite their waning interest in genuine political reform, however, donors have continued to insist on nominally democratic systems.
Waning of natural immunity occurs at a per capita rate, v, represented by a horizontal left to right movement along rows.
Support for exporting freedom may be recently waning, given the problems associated with democracy-building adventures around the world.
Could waning delta power in fact aggrandize the refractory period?
The idea, of course, was to make up for the waning frequency of musters by training the militia properly.
There was no evidence for waning of antibody titres over time for those aged >10 weeks (results not shown).
There was even some evidence of a 'wave of darkening' spreading from the waning polar cap towards the equator.
Such trends echo many contemporary studies of intensifiers which show that very is waning while really is dominant.
However, the use of diversified agricultural systems was already waning as other factors created even larger economic incentives favoring specialization.
By the close of the decade, however, enthusiasm for fetal intervention was waning.
Our estimations did not take into account waning of antibodies over lifetime.
However, the rate of waning immunity was assumed to be equal for both immunity to disease and to carriage.
The greatest value of this book lies in the record of rapidly waning or extinct practices.
With a waning confidence in local governments' and officials' ability to rule, these older men may gain renewed local political importance.
In countries with well-established vaccine programmes, the lack of circulating wild virus may not boost immune responses, resulting in waning immunity.
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