DWINDLE

dwindle

Verb

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


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