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Dwindling   /dwˈɪndəlɪŋ/  /dwˈɪndlɪŋ/   Listen
adjective
dwindling  adj.  Gradually decreasing until little remains.
Synonyms: tapering, tapering off.


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
dwindling  n.  The act or process of becoming gradually less until little remains; as, there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family.
Synonyms: dwindling away.





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"Dwindling" Quotes from Famous Books



... with his notorious character and antecedents, to Grosville Park—one of the dwindling number of country-houses in England where the old Puritan restrictions still held? It was said he was on the look-out for a post—Ashe, indeed, happened to know it officially; and Lord Grosville had a good deal of influence. Moreover, ...
— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... being old, my children eye askance My slowly dwindling store, And crave my mite; till, worn with tarriance, I care for life ...
— Wessex Poems and Other Verses • Thomas Hardy
... world, and liable to cease when it fails. They belong to the permanent, invisible order of things. Suppose one loses his body. Then there is no force whereby earth can hold its child any longer to its breast. It flies on at terrific speed, dwindling to a speck in unknown distances, and leaving the man amid infinitudes alone. But there are other attractions. There was One uplifted on a cross to draw all men unto him. Love has finer attraction for souls than gravitation has ...
— Among the Forces • Henry White Warren
... thy sensual fleece, O turn aside,—and take, I pray, That he below may rest in peace, Thy ever-dwindling soul, away! [5] ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. II. • William Wordsworth
... 1781, that Lord North got this news, taking it "as he would have taken a ball in his breast." He recognized at once that "all was over," yet for a short time longer he retained the management of affairs. But his majority in Parliament was steadily dwindling, and evidently with him also "all was over." In his despair he caught with almost pathetic eagerness at what for a moment seemed a chance to save his ministry by treating with the States secretly and apart from France. He was a man not ...
— Benjamin Franklin • John Torrey Morse, Jr.


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