dwindle

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verb

V_es/s

dwindles

V_ing/Gerund

dwindling

V_ed/pp

dwindled

1.
(intransitive)To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
Their supplies began to dwindle after a week.
Interest in the project slowly dwindled.
dwindle away
dwindle to nothing
dwindle steadily
1802, T. Paynell (translator), Erasmus, The Complaint of Peace [E]very thing that was improving gradually degenerates and dwindles away to nothing, […]
Đồng nghĩa: fade away, peter out, spin down, trail off, wane, wanse
2.
(figuratively, intransitive)To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.
3.
(transitive)To lessen; to bring low.
4.
To break up or disperse.

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fade awaypeter outspin downtrail offwanewanse

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Nguồn gốc từ

Frequentative form of dwine, from Middle English dwynen, from Old English dwīnan (to waste away), from *dwīnan, from Proto-Germanic *dwīnaną. It is equivalent to dwine + -le, akin to dvena, dvína, verdwijnen.