intransitive. To become gradually smaller, to dwindle or waste away; to disappear rapidly or progressively. Also spec. of a swelling or tumour…
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释义 | the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > decrease in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (intransitive)] > gradually (8) meltc1225 intransitive. To become gradually smaller, to dwindle or waste away; to disappear rapidly or progressively. Also spec. of a swelling or tumour… dwindle1598 intransitive. To become smaller and smaller; to shrink, waste away, decline. to die down1836 To subside gradually into a dead or inactive state; to die away. to trail off1845 to trail off (fig.): to ‘go off’ in a careless, casual, or indefinite way into something; to tail off. to taper off (away, down)1848 figurative. to taper off (away, down): To become gradually less in intensity, etc.; also colloquial to leave off a process or habit by degrees, esp.… to tail off (out)1854 intransitive. To fall away in a tail; to diminish and cease; to come gradually to an end; to subside. to tail away1860 intransitive. To fall away in a tail or straggling line; to die away. fritter1874 intransitive for reflexive. †To become broken into pieces or subdivided (obsolete). rarely, To dwindle. |
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