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Dwindle   /dwˈɪndəl/   Listen
verb
Dwindle  v. t.  
1.
To make less; to bring low. "Our drooping days are dwindled down to naught."
2.
To break; to disperse. (R.)


Dwindle  v. i.  (past & past part. dwindled; pres. part. dwindling)  To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away. "Weary sennights nine times nine Shall he dwindle, peak and pine." "Religious societies, though begun with excellent intentions, are said to have dwindled into factious clubs."


noun
Dwindle  n.  The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy. (R.)





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"Dwindle" Quotes from Famous Books



... the great stretch of the Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, its slight curve very purely outlined with light; over it luminous trams, like shuttles of fire, are thrown across and across, continually weaving the stuff of human existence. From further off all these lights dwindle to a radiant semicircle that gazes out over the expanse with a quiet, mysterious expectancy. Far away seaward you may see the low golden glare of ...
— Letters from America • Rupert Brooke
... got one pound ten," said Grannie. "I looked at the purse this morning. One pound ten, and sevenpence ha'penny in coppers; that's all. That wouldn't be a bad sum if there was anythink more coming in; but seeing as ther' aint, it is uncommon likely to dwindle, look at it from what p'int ...
— Good Luck • L. T. Meade
... in the State. They make their student-years but a pretext for a life of rough debauchery, from which they issue with a bought diploma; and, in many cases, satiated and disgusted with their own lives, they dwindle down into the timeserving reactionaries, the worst enemies of free development, because they themselves have abused in youth the little ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861 • Various
... enthusiasm in the matter began to dwindle. The fine fire which had sustained him during the story's composition had died out. He was satisfied with his work. He had written a good story, and that was the end of it. No doubt he would send it East—to the Centennial Company—to-morrow or the day after—some time that week. To mail ...
— Blix • Frank Norris
... brown, Plotting gain of merchandise, Or perchance of robber prize; Clumsy camel load upheaving, Woman deftly carpet-weaving, Meal of dates and bread and salt, While in azure heavenly vault Throbbing stars begin to dwindle. ...
— Pipe and Pouch - The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry • Various


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