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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



... sun. The wayfarer marks his progress by the bearing of that great cross, the hunter looks to it for an unfailing landmark, the weatherwise farmer prognosticates from its appearances. The old watch it dwindle from sight at evening with long thoughts of the well-beloved vanished, who sighed to its vanishing through vanished years; the dying turn to its beckoning radiance; happy is the maiden for whose bridal it wears brightness; blessed is the ...
— Old Man Savarin and Other Stories • Edward William Thomson
... tower unhumanly tall above the cringing wretch he confronted. His eyes narrowed into red points that bored into the other's eyes, and plunged like daggers into his heart and mind. Before that glance, like a vivisectionist's knife, Jake wilted; he seemed to shrink, dwindle, collapse. And with a growing, cold, awful horror, a suspicion so hideous that his mind revolted from it, Peter Champneys stood staring from one black face to ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler
... shoulders, an elevation of the eyebrows, a depression of his mouth and a general malformation of countenance so comically awkward that it scarcely ever failed to 'bring down the house.' His enunciation was slow and distinct, and his voice though sharp and piercing at times had a tendency to dwindle into a shrill and unpleasant tone. In this matter of voice and commanding attitude, the odds were decidedly in favor ...
— Hidden Treasures - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail • Harry A. Lewis
... Temple-children question which touches a wider issue than the personal or missionary. Those who have read Queen Victoria's Letters must have become conscious of a certain enlargement. Questions become great or dwindle into nothingness according as they affect the honour and the good of the Empire. We find ourselves instinctively "thinking Imperially," regarding things from the Throne side—from ...
— Lotus Buds • Amy Carmichael
... pools that seemed to lie right and left. Once the faint track I was following headed straight towards one of these apparent sheets of water, and I was even meditating a bathe, but, lo! when I was a hundred yards or so off, it began to dwindle and disappear, and I found nothing but the same endless stretch of grass, burnt up by the ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley


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