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dwindled

/dwin-dl/US // ˈdwɪn dl //UK // (ˈdwɪndəl) //

逐渐减少的,逐渐减少,缩减了,缩减的

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    dwin·dled, dwin·dling.

    • : to make smaller and smaller; cause to shrink: Failing health dwindles ambition.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbwaste away; taper off

Examples

  • 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.