waxing

ebbing, diminishing, fading, dwindling, sapped, faltering, eroding, rising, flagging, evaporating, dimmed, withered, wilting, slackening, soaring, renewed, shrinking, mounting, wavering, surging, plummeting, heightened, slowing, weakening, sagging, lessened, increasing, blunted, dulled, intensifying, declining, spiking, decreasing, vanishing, resurged, boosting, dissipated, stalling, souring, revived, dampened, dented, stagnating, receding, fizzling, buoying, slumping, abating, spurring, undimmed, petering, peaked, lagging, lingering, squelched, curbed, regaining, overriding, disappearing, lack, subsiding, burgeoning, bolstering, shrivelling, outweighing, rekindle, reassert, crimped, frayed, growing, prolonged, overshadowing, falling, reinvigorated, floundering, looming, foundering, remaining, enervated, escalating, nearing, spiraling, clinging, ensuing, fueled, tempered, rallying, quelled, slipping, curtailed, softening, skyrocketed, undermined, creeping, drooping, sputtering, muted, undercut, gaining, enduing, lame duck, reignite, lessening, easing, diminution, decline, deterioration, upturn, amelioration, loosening, brightening, decrease, fall, heightening, slowdown, widening, darkening, rise, disappearance, lightening, undiminished, unabated, undying, found, half, alive, boundless, deathless, enough, ev'ry, extinguished, full, quickening, unbounded, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unquenchable, unwavering

darkening, linger

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