dwindle 的 2 个定义
dwin·dled, dwin·dling.
- to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away.
- to fall away, as in quality; degenerate.
dwin·dled, dwin·dling.
- to make smaller and smaller; cause to shrink: Failing health dwindles ambition.
dwindle 近义词
waste away; taper off
更多dwindle例句
- Google, though, seems to be gaining more control over the auction as transparency and data have dwindled down over the years.
- I imagine them bumping around, lost without crowded indoor spaces to breed in, thwarted by vaccine-boosted immune cells, unable to find a host, dwindling, going, gone.
- That’s enough for the snowpack to be dwindling in most spots.
- At some point, they might consider whether the search for a dwindling electorate is all that helpful for their survival.
- Consumers are increasingly purchasing digital versions of games on platforms such as Xbox Live and the PlayStation Store, leaving GameStop with both a dwindling supply and dampened demand for used video games.
- While public interest in Ebola continues to dwindle, the epidemic itself continues to soar.
- As the holidays approach, Hohlfelder worries that concern will further dwindle.
- For most of us, whether or not Nico is missing or dead would seem irrelevant as the days left dwindle.
- If the money starts to dwindle, then Snyder will do something.
- Terror continues to win as our civil liberties continue to dwindle.
- With either Mr. Shepard or Mr. Low elected, Tammany would dwindle—as one now beholds it—to be a third-rate influence.
- The excessive military spirit of the inhabitants had begun to dwindle, as England's interest required.
- The island glided further and further away from the cliffs, and he watched the waterfall dwindle away to a streak and disappear.
- Some of these dwindle away soon enough—or perhaps not quite soon enough; some of them increase and become permanent and beautiful.
- This original may dwindle by circumstances, so as to become not a purpose of the second or even the third magnitude.