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Definition of Dwindle
1. Verb. Become smaller or lose substance. "Her savings dwindled down"
Generic synonyms: Decrease, Diminish, Fall, Lessen
Derivative terms: Dwindling
Definition of Dwindle
1. v. i. To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.
2. v. t. To make less; to bring low.
3. n. The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy.
Definition of Dwindle
1. Verb. (intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive figuratively) To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dwindle
1. to decrease steadily [v -DLED, -DLING, -DLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dwindle
Literary usage of Dwindle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions. by Frederick Marryat (1839)
"What between their wars with each other, the use of spirituous liquors, and the
diseases imported by the whites, they dwindle away every day. ..."
2. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"1. To pine, SA Nial. 2. To fade ; applied to nature. Fergusson. 3. To dwindle, S.
Poems Buch. Dial.—Teut. dwyn-cn, attenuate, ..."
3. The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates by Joseph Smith, Orson Pratt (1906)
"Yea, and this because they shall dwindle in unbelief, and fall into the works of
darkness, and lasciviousness, and all manner of iniquities; yea, ..."
4. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... which generally sink into wealth and luxury, by which means the offspring
dwindle into effeminacy and dissipation, yet, I hope, we shall always remain ..."
5. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"... village after village has been injured by the increasing marsh area, rendering
year by year fresh fields useless, and causing cultivation to dwindle. ..."
6. Wisdom and Destiny by Maurice Maeterlinck (1906)
"This space must dwindle daily in those who follow evil, seeing that their thoughts
and feelings must of necessity dwindle also. ..."
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