Dwindle

Definition: Dwindle

Dwindle

Verb

1. Become smaller or lose substance; "Her savings dwindled down".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dwindle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Note: Dwindle \Dwin"dle\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Dwindled; Dwindling.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Dwindle

Contraction

Verb: become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay; (deteriorate).

Crosswords: Dwindle

Books

• Advice to Portals: Diversify or Dwindle [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Poland's Mountain of Debt: Will It Dwindle (Rand Paper, P-7046) (reference)

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Baker, Florida. Former bank of Baker, now a barbershop. Baker was a big center in the lumbering days; it was on the Falco Lumber Company rail line, but they tore up the tracks in 1923 and Baker's population began to dwindle. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Economic History

Bangladesh

Buyers typically import U.S. apples between April and July, when the Indian supplies dwindle. (references)

India

The market for JFTCs is likely to dwindle over a period of time, as OFCs become the more favored product. (references)

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan's lack of currency convertibility has caused foreign investment inflows to dwindle to a trickle. (references)

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Expressions using "dwindle": dwindle away ♦ dwindle down. Additional references.

Albanian

zvogëlohet (diminish, lessen), venitet (droop, evanesce, fade, fade away, pine away, wane), tkurrem (contract, draw, shrink), pakësohem (decrease, diminish, drop off, ease off, ease up, fall off, lessen, melt, peter out, recede, slip, wane, weaken, worsen), fikem (be ruined, be switched off, be turned off, fade away, fail, go out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تقلص (contract, cringe, retract, retraction, shrink, shrinkage, shrivel), ‏تضاءل (fade, peak, wane), ‏ضاءل (deflate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смалявам се (peter out, shrink away), губя влиянието си, губя значението си, намалявам се (wane), западам (come down, decay, fail, falter, go back, molder, moulder, sag, sink, turn down). (various references)

Chinese 

减少 (cutback, Decreased, Decreasing, Diminish, Diminished, Diminishing, Diminution, Dwindled, Dwindling, Mio, reduce, reduced, reducing, reduction, rundown, Wane, Waned, Waning). (various references)

Czech

zmenšovat se (close, decrease), zcvrknout se, ubývat (be on the wane, decline, decrease, ebb, sink, subside, wane, waste), tenèit se (give out). (various references)

Farsi 

کم شدن (Abate, Diminish, Slacken, Wane), تحلیل رفتن (Assimilate, Consume, Eat, Gnaw), تدریجاکاهش یافتن , رفته رفته کوچک شدن . (various references)

Finnish

kutistua (contract, shrink), huveta (decrease, shrink). (various references)

French

diminuer, tomber, s'affaiblir. (various references)

German

schwinden (die away, evanescence, fade, fade away, fail, lapse, ooze away, recede, retreat, shrink, slip away, swoon, tail off, vanish, wane, waste, wear away). (various references)

Greek 

μειούμαι (lessen, wane), φθίνω (consume away, decay, descend, droop, pine, tabefy, wilt, wither). (various references)

Hebrew 

למעוט (be small, decrease, diminish), למזמז (dissipate, flirt, neck, soften), ל�"ת�"ל�"ל, ל�"צטמצם (be reduced, boil down, contract, limit oneself), ל�"לול (become poor). (various references)

Hungarian

fogy (to dwindle, to dwindle away, to fall off, to lessen, to lose flesh, to lose weight, to wane, wane), csökken (deaden, lessen, let up, to abate, to attenuate, to be down, to deaden, to decrease, to drop, to dwindle, to ease down, to ease up, to extenuate, to fall off, to let up, to lower, to recede, to reduce, to remit, to sag, to slacken, to wane). (various references)

Indonesian

mundur (derogate, keep back, retreat, wince), merosot (decadent), melorot (decadent, derogate). (various references)

Italian

diminuire (abate, Bate, decline, decrease, detract, diminish, drop, fall, go, go down, lessen, reduce, relax, remit, sag, slacken, slump, wane, weaken, worsen), rimpicciolirsi (lessen), rimpicciolire (become smaller, diminish, dwarf, lessen, make smaller, reduce), menomare (abate, belittle, cheapen, damage, decrease, diminish, disable, drop, impair, maim, minimize, relax, slaken, understimate, weaken), consumarsi (fray, fret, wear out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

先細り (tapering off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さきぼそり (tapering off). (various references)

Manx

lheie ersooyl (blow over, die out, vanish, vanish as ice, wear off). (various references)

Norwegian

svinne. (various references)

Pig Latin

indledway

Portuguese

diminuir (abridge, assuage, commute, cut down, dampen, decline, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, dwarf, extenuate, fall, impair, lessen, lower, mince, minify, pass off, rebate, reduce, relax, retrench, shorten, shrink, sink, wear down, whittle). (various references)

Romanian

se micşora (contract, decline, diminish, ease, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, flag, grow less, grow smaller, lessen, shrink, shrink away), se diminua (abate, decrease, diminish, fall away), scãdea (abate, abstract, decay, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, depress, derogate from, diminish, drop, ebb, fade, fall, go down, lower, recede, reduce, relax, sag, shrink, sink, subside, subtract, take off, wane). (various references)

Russian 

терять значение (recede into the background). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

splasnuti (go down), iščeznuti (disappear, fade away, vanish, wear off). (various references)

Spanish

disminuirse (decrease, die away, diminish, lessen, thin), ir desapareciendo (trail away, trail off). (various references)

Swedish

krympa ihop, förminskas (diminish), få att krympa ihop. (various references)

Thai

ห�"ตัว. (various references)

Turkish

küçülmek (be on the wane, be reduced, become small, decrease, derogate, feel insignificant, shrink, wane), bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset), azalmak (abate, be on the wane, be reduced, decay, decline, decrease, de-escalate, diminish, dive, drop off, ease off, fall away, fall off, lessen, run short of, run short of smth., sag, scale down, shorten, shrink, sink, tail, wane, wear away), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw). (various references)

Ukrainian

скорочуватися (become shorter, diminish, shorten, shrink, thin off), зменшувати (abate, allay, alleviate, ax, axe, belittle, cut back, decrease, detract, diminish, extenuate, lessen, minify, palliate, relax, slacken, turn down, whittle away), погіршуватися (break down, degenerate, degrade, disimprove, slacken). (various references)

decrescebant, decrescens, decreta, decreti, decretis, decreto, decretum, decreveram, decreverat, decreverunt, decreveruntque, decrevi, decrevimus, decrevit, decrevitque. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dwindle": dwindled, dwindles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dwindle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: diwindle, drindle, dwind, dwintle, Ndwandwe, wandle, Wendle. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: windled.

-1 letter: dindle, dwined, widdle, winded, windle.

-2 letters: dined, dwine, idled, lined, nided, widen, wield, wiled, wined.

-3 letters: deil, deli, deni, died, diel, dine, idle, lend, lewd, lied, lien, line, lwei, nide, weld, wend, wide, wild, wile, wind, wine.

-4 letters: del, den, dew, did, die, din, eld, end, led, lei, lid, lie, lin, new, nil, wed.

+1 letter: dwindled, dwindles, swindled.

+2 letters: downfield, downslide.

+3 letters: downslides, windlassed, windmilled, windshield.

+4 letters: windshields.