Definition of Dwindles

1. Verb. (third-person singular of dwindle) ¹

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Definition of Dwindles

1. dwindle [v] - See also: dwindle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dwindles

dwells
dwelt
dweomer
dweomercraft
dwere
dwi-
dwile
dwile flonking
dwiles
dwimmer
dwimmers
dwindle
dwindle away
dwindle down
dwindled
dwindles (current term)
dwindling
dwindling away
dwine
dwined
dwines
dwining
dword
dwords
dwornikite
dwual
dy-no-mite
dyable
dyad
dyad symmetry element

Literary usage of Dwindles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign by James Wood (1893)
"How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, / How commentators each dark pas- age shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun ! ..."

2. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1891)
"Again it is a collection of A Mines, which dwindles .to two dingy little volumes. At another time it is a wonderful burst of organ-playing, which promotes ..."

3. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"The male helps feed the young, and his frequent song by the time the young have hatched gradually dwindles away. They feed on the various insects which they ..."

4. The English in Western India: Being the Early History of the Factory at by Philip Anderson (1854)
"... and consequent injuries inflicted upon the nU Factory—Wretched state of Bombay ; the revenues and garrison—Disease ; the European population dwindles ..."

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