DWINDLE
dwindle
Verb
- To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size.
- To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.
- The flattery of his friends began to dwindle into simple approbation. (Goldsmith, Vicar, III)
- To lessen; to bring low.
- To break; to disperse.
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