dwindle
verb /ˈdwɪndl/
/ˈdwɪndl/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they dwindle | /ˈdwɪndl/ /ˈdwɪndl/ |
| he / she / it dwindles | /ˈdwɪndlz/ /ˈdwɪndlz/ |
| past simple dwindled | /ˈdwɪndld/ /ˈdwɪndld/ |
| past participle dwindled | /ˈdwɪndld/ /ˈdwɪndld/ |
| -ing form dwindling | /ˈdwɪndlɪŋ/ /ˈdwɪndlɪŋ/ |
- to become gradually less or smaller
- dwindling audiences
- a dwindling band of supporters
- dwindle (away) (to something) Support for the party has dwindled away to nothing.
- dwindle (from something) (to something) Membership of the club has dwindled from 70 to 20.
Extra Examples- Supplies of coal are dwindling fast.
- The group's support dwindled into insignificance.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- fast
- quickly
- rapidly
- …
- into
- to
Word Originlate 16th cent.: frequentative of Scots and dialect dwine ‘fade away’, from Old English dwīnan, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch dwīnen and Old Norse dvína.