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dwindle

dwindle, dwindle away, dwindle down - v 
become smaller or lose substance; "Her savings dwindled down" 

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synonyms

abate, de-escalate, decrease, dent, deplete, diminish, downscale, downsize, drop, ease, knock down, lessen, lower, reduce

in a sentence

Our energy dwindled as the meeting dragged on.  

The town's population is dwindling away.

Each year the critics dwindle in number, grudgingly accepting the beauty of women’s basketball.

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etymology

"diminish, become less, shrink," 1590s (Shakespeare), apparently diminutive and frequentative of dwine "waste or pine away," from Middle English dwinen "waste away, fade, vanish," from Old English dwinan, from Proto-Germanic *dwinana (source also of Dutch dwijnen "to vanish," Old Norse dvina, Danish tvine "to pine away," Low German dwinen), from PIE *dheu- (3) "to die" (see die (v.)). Related: Dwindled; dwindling.

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