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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



... of conduct. The enemy must be kept in a state of constant ferment. If the Indians act as they did under Tecumseh, who probably might be induced to return to Amherstburg, that army will very soon dwindle to nothing. Your artillery must be more numerous and effective than any the enemy can bring, and your store of ammunition will enable you to harass him continually, without ...
— The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock • Ferdinand Brock Tupper
... in the waste places of the earth—temporary shelter for wayfarers whose homes are under their hats. The thin stream of civilization that trickles off into the wilderness, following the iron track, makes puddles now and again. Some of these dwindle away soon enough—or perhaps not quite soon enough; some of them increase and become permanent ...
— Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska • Charles Warren Stoddard
... solve, difficulties and emergencies of a most perplexing and bewildering nature. Boer and Briton alike had to face such difficulties and disadvantages. The disadvantages, however, under which the English had to labour in South Africa dwindle into insignificance when contrasted and compared with those of the Boers, especially towards the latter part of the war. The impartial critic must admit that eventually the vantage ground was altogether ...
— In the Shadow of Death • P. H. Kritzinger and R. D. McDonald
... unalloyed. The vice, unhappily, is not unknown in England. A country which had the ingenuity to call a penny reading "university extension," and to send its missionaries into every town, cannot be held guiltless. But our poor attempts at culture dwindle to a paltry insignificance in the light of American enterprise; and we would no more compare the achievement of England in the diffusion of learning with the achievement of the United States, than ...
— American Sketches - 1908 • Charles Whibley
... I was doing. And all the time I was in a state of fierce revolt. I had moments when my life's ambitions, when New York itself, the Mecca of my dreams, and that marvellous theatre, with its marble and silk, seemed suddenly to dwindle to a miserable, contemptible little doll's house. And then again I played, and I felt my soul as I played, and the old dreams swept over me, and I said that it wasn't anything to do with personal vanity that made me crave for the big gifts of success; that it was my art, and that I must find ...
— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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