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单词 dwindle
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dwindlen.

Etymology: < dwindle v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdwindle.
rare.
a. The process of dwindling; gradual diminution or decline.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > gradual
wastinga1425
leakage1642
dwindle1779
dwindling1884
rundown1890
diminuendo1891
phase-down1958
wind-down1969
tail-off1975
build-down1983
the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > [noun] > gradual > that which is
dwindling1608
dwindle1779
1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 106 The hope of growing every day greater in the dwindle of posterity.
1782 J. Elphinston tr. Martial Epigrams iii. xciii. 173 Three hairs, and four teeth, are the dwindle Fell Chronus allows thy command.
b. concrete. A dwindled or shrunken object.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > weak person
dwininga1400
molla1425
impotenta1513
gristlea1556
weakling1576
puler1579
puling1579
shadow1588
shotten herring1598
doddle1681
sickrel1699
seven-months1724
wandought1726
wallydraigle1736
wreck1795
werewolf1808
windlestraw1818
weed1825
shammock1828
sickling1834
forcible feeble1844
dwindle1847
weedling1849
crock1876
feebling1887
asthenic1893
dodderer1907
pencil-neck1956
burnt-out case1959
weakie1959
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Dwindle, a poor sickly child. Kent.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

dwindlev.

/ˈdwɪnd(ə)l/
Etymology: A diminutive derivative of dwine v.: compare kindle v.2 Probably of dialect origin: in Shakespeare, but little used before 1650.
1.
a. intransitive. To become smaller and smaller; to shrink, waste away, decline.
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the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > become reduced in size or extent [verb (intransitive)] > gradually
dwindle1598
melt1645
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > decrease in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (intransitive)] > gradually
meltc1225
dwindle1598
to die down1836
to trail off1845
to taper off (away, down)1848
to tail off (out)1854
to tail away1860
fritter1874
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [verb (intransitive)] > in quality or character
forworthc1000
wearc1275
spilla1300
defadec1325
pall?c1335
forlinec1374
sinka1500
degender1539
degener1545
degenerate1545
dwindle1598
degenerize1606
disflourish1640
deflourish1656
waste1669
tarnish1678
devolve1830
honeycomb1868
bastardize1878
slush1882
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. iii. 2 Bardoll, am I not falne away vilely..do I not bate? do I not dwindle?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 22 Wearie Seu'nights, nine times nine, Shall he dwindle, peake, and pine. View more context for this quotation
1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver xxiii. 137 Corne will fall Flat, and Dwindle, or Rot.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Mddx. 189 It grindeth the Grain aforehand, making it to dwindle away almost to nothing.
1711 E. Budgell Spectator No 150 ⁋1 Little Insults and Contempts, which..seem to dwindle into nothing when a Man offers to describe them.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 7 Men seem the only growth that dwindles here.
1831 Earl of Elgin in L. J. Jennings Croker Papers 15 July (1884) II [The] Opposition..dwindling down to thirty or forty.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 285 The party which on the first day of the session had rallied round Athol had dwindled away to nothing.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 163 Polygamist peoples..dwindle in numbers.
b. In past participle (constructed with be), denoting the resulting condition. (See also sense 2.)
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1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 130 Honour and Arms..is now almost dwindled into an Airy nothing.
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. viii. 416 The rest were dwindled away.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies iii. 121 Whether the fall be dwindled to a single thread.
c. figurative. To decline in quality, value, or estimation; to degenerate, ‘sink’.
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1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 131 For Saints in Peace degenerate, And dwinled down to Reprobate.
a1704 T. Brown Satyr upon French King in Wks. (1707) I. i. 90 Thou, that hast look'd so fierce, and talk'd so big, In thy Old Age to dwindle to a Whigg.
1760 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. 37 The ancient prætors dwindled into his legates.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §5. 142 The writers dwindle into mere annalists whose view is bounded by the abbey precincts.
d. To shrink (with fear). Obsolete. rare. (Probably a misuse owing to two senses of shrink.)
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the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > cower or flinch
wondec897
shuna1000
blencha1250
cowerc1300
scunnerc1425
cringea1525
to play couch-quaila1529
quail1544
winch1605
dwindle1612
blank1642
shy1650
scringec1700
funk?1746
flinch1883
curl1913
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist v. iv. sig. L4v Fac. Did you not heare the coyle, About the dore? Sub. Yes, and I dwindled with it. View more context for this quotation
2. transitive. To reduce gradually in size, cause to shrink into small dimensions.
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the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > reduce in size or extent [verb (transitive)] > gradually
to wane away1601
dwindlea1661
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Suff. 56 Divine Justice, insensibly dwingling their Estates.
1679 Protestant Conformist 4 These Monsters..have dwindled the Wolf into a Fox.
1710 Pict. of Malice 12 Dwindling the Prince below the Pigmy Size.
1867 G. Gilfillan Night i. 13 Like a star..When dwindled by the moon to small sharp point.

Derivatives

ˈdwindling n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > decreasing gradually
ebbing1607
running-down1637
dwindling1664
build-down1983
the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > [adjective] > gradually
dwindled1602
dwindlinga1854
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > gradual
wastinga1425
leakage1642
dwindle1779
dwindling1884
rundown1890
diminuendo1891
phase-down1958
wind-down1969
tail-off1975
build-down1983
1664 H. More Antidote Idolatry 73 Illuminatrix cordium..would be but a dwindling Title.
a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) II. xv. 200 A dwarfish and dwindling race.
1884 Spectator 12 July 902/1 The dwindling of their majority.
ˈdwindler n. one who dwindles.
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the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > [noun] > gradual > one who
dwindler1654
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. ii. 38 The Monks were..not dwindlers, but of ample size.
ˈdwindlement n. dwindling, shrinking.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > [noun] > gradual
degradation1730
dwindlement1863
melting1897
1863 M. Oliphant Salem Chapel I. i. 22 With a sensation of dreadful dwindlement.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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