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Definition of dwindling : of Dwindle

Synonyms:

tapered, narrowing, tapering off, dwindling away

decreasing, lessening, draining, deducting, abating, dying down, depleting, decrementing, concentrating, compressing, shrinking, receding, eroding, truncating, abridging, contracting, deflating, curtailing, lowering, subsiding, shortening, compacting, abbreviating, diminishing

downgrading, condensing, pruning, paring, cropping, clipping, shaving, nipping, shearing, tapering, trimming, weeding, culling, minimizing, lightening, bobbing, reducing

Usage examples:

• Its speed of ascent, added to Seth's took his racing, dwindling figure out of sight quickly. - "The Thing in the Attic", James Benjamin Blish.
• What brought the man, with his notorious character and antecedents, to Grosville Park- one of the dwindling number of country- houses in England where the old Puritan restrictions still held? - "The Marriage of William Ashe", Mrs. Humphry Ward.
• And Ferdinand had contributed to his own undoing by failing to heed the urgent requests of Morillo for reinforcements to fill his dwindling ranks. - "The Hispanic Nations of the New World Volume 50 in The Chronicles Of America Series", William R. Shepherd.