I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
interest wanes (= becomes less )
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When his initial interest waned, the teacher paid more attention to him.
sb’s powers are failing/waning (= becoming less good )
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Mark felt that his creative powers were waning.
the moon wanes (= gets smaller each night )
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The August moon was waning.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
interest
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Nevertheless, its reception was mixed, and interest began to wane with the death of Bishop Wilkins in 1672.
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But the interest has waned in the last 24-48 hours and it now appears that the deal will not happen.
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As that interest had waned , Perrin now wanted to go back to fundamentals.
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Do I withdraw apparatus when interest in it wanes ?
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It was six months before their debut album was in the shops and by that time public interest in them had waned .
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Thirteen years later, interest has waned in a killer dismissed by many as the least interesting of the famous assassins.
popularity
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Like every star before her Kylie was painfully aware that her fame and popularity could wane literally overnight.
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But with his popularity waning and the economy temporarily faltering, Park was in trouble even in his own entourage.
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The Bill's initial popularity began to wane after an intense media barrage of highly critical commercials.
wax
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Over the years, there have been fundamental shifts in policy and strategy as attitudes toward the rural poor wax and wane .
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Is it present constantly, does the sensation wax and wane , or does it come in acute attacks?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His popularity in the state began to wane almost immediately after the election.
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Some countries' taste for purely American pop culture has waned.
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When girls hit adolescence, their self-confidence begins to wane .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But in the waning hours Saturday night, Cox came up big.
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But with his popularity waning and the economy temporarily faltering, Park was in trouble even in his own entourage.
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Enthusiasm for it tends to wane during economic recessions.
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Even in the final years of the Soviet Union, the managers were stepping into the void created by waning party power.
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In the waning light of the spring evening, play commences in the second-grade Fathers / Students League.
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My enthusiasm had waned by the time the tea arrived.
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The smile was beginning to wane .
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The volume of the presiding cleric's voice waxed and waned as though he were speaking through a faulty microphone.
II. noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wax and wane
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Although the Alsops' fortunes waxed and waned through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, certain family characteristics remained distinct.
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Controversy about essential hypertension has waxed and waned for a century, and what is orthodox today may change with time.
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Historical Romances continued to appear throughout the century, waxing and waning in numbers and popularity as public taste dictated.
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Is it present constantly, does the sensation wax and wane, or does it come in acute attacks?
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Over the years, there have been fundamental shifts in policy and strategy as attitudes toward the rural poor wax and wane.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the time, the hobby had been on the wane for years.
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But I could see that the moon above my head was really on the wane .
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But the conservatives' influence has lately seemed on the wane .
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However, his opponents are convinced that even in true-blue East Hampshire Tory popularity is on the wane .
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The event coincided with New Zealand on the wane and Grant Fox paying the inevitable penalty.
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The influence of government agents and chief headmen, on the wane since 1920, declined still further.
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The vocational profession of Alpine shepherd is on the wane , an arduous life with unreliable income.
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With violence appearing to be on the wane at the moment, he may well be right that the future looks bright.