wane

Object

• moon: To plant flowers during a waning moon would not yield the best results.
• popularity: However, signs of its waning popularity have started to appear across the globe.
• influence: Waning influence Callaghan was obliged to hold a general election, which was won by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party.
• interest: I imagine a waning interest in contact is quite common.
• power: Both grain and fruit harvests have been gathered as we give thanks for our harvest and acknowledge the waning power of the Sun.
• light: Pausing from their work in the waning light, farmers spoke quietly of American intentions.

Preposition: over

• year: Protection from an initial vaccination does not last forever and the immunity will wane over the year.

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: Owners are looking to retire and interest has waned somewhat; they no longer attend trade shows but should do.
• considerably: In Britain, this strain dominant in the environmental movement of the early 1970s has waned considerably.
• gradually: So the popularity of sundials gradually waned through the 1800s.
• quickly: By now, my confidence in the British burger is quickly waning.
• rapidly: However, Brereton's enthusiasm for public life seems to have rapidly waned.
• since: Its fortunes have since waned due to the demise of local industry, much of which has disappeared.

Used with why or when

• when: But interest wanes when the price of 15 times the annual subscription of £ 157 is quoted.

Preposition: in

• popularity: What he might have done is revived an interest that was flagging after the Arts and Crafts style had waned in popularity.
• year: The zodiac worked as a symbolic calendar divided into twelve parts, like the of 12 moons waxing and waning in a year.
• century: When its influence waned in the mid 18th century, local merchants rose to power and took control.
• face: Students do become involved and interested, even tho their interest may wane in the face of pressure when course assignments are due!

Preposition: of

• moon: Their liver grows bigger at full moon, like the tides rise then fall with the waning of the moon.

Preposition: for

• time: The unique aura of an art object has been on the wane for some time now.