单词 | dwindle |
释义 | dwindlen. rare. a. The process of dwindling; gradual diminution or decline. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 1. a. intransitive. To become smaller and smaller; to shrink, waste away, decline. ΘΚΠ 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.) ΚΠ 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’. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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