dwindlingn.
/ˈdwɪndlɪŋ/ rare.
A thing that dwindles or has dwindled away; U.S. local (see quot. 1911).
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the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > [noun] > gradual > that which is
dwindling1608
dwindle1779
1608 H. Plat Floraes Paradise Beautified 25 Your pompions will prooue but dwainlings.
1911 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. XLVII. 14 The small creeks into which the marsh lots slope are called ‘dwindlings’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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ˈdwindling
ˈdwindling n. and adj.
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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.
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