Crossword clues for dwindled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dwindle \Dwin"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dwindled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dwindling.] [From OE. dwinen to languish, waste away, AS. dw[=i]nan; akin to LG. dwinen, D. dwijnen to vanish, Icel. dv[=i]na to cease, dwindle, Sw. tvina; of uncertain origin. The suffix -le, preceded by d excrescent after n, is added to the root with a diminutive force.] To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.
Weary sennights nine times nine
Shall he dwindle, peak and pine.
--Shak.
Religious societies, though begun with excellent
intentions,
are said to have dwindled into factious clubs.
--Swift.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: dwindle)
Usage examples of "dwindled".
But even as his muscle had dwindled, his Skill-aura had increased, until to stand before him now was like standing before a blazing hearth.
So although they had made raids as far as Shoaks Duchy that summer, as the pleasant days dwindled they concentrated their efforts at making the coast of Bearns their own.
Her voice dwindled off and she looked up at me with eyes full of misery.
When we rose the next day and set forth upon it, it soon dwindled to no more than a vague track through the trees.
Now, when the days left to me had dwindled to where I might count them.
His voice dwindled away and he seemed to be listening to something far away.
His strength for it has dwindled, and it taxes his body as well as his mind.
He was still gray, his body still worn and sadly dwindled from too many months of sitting.
For the folk of Arnor dwindled, and their foes devoured them, and their lordship passed, leaving only green mounds in the grassy hills.
Inland towns and cities lived on local resources, and when these dwindled, the inhabitants starved.
For a year and a half he had rusted in the heel of Italy, with no kingship but the title, while his army wasted and dwindled and some who could afford it took ship for home.
Even English Aquitaine had dwindled to little more than the environs of Bordeaux.
The track continued to the northwest, dwindled away across the steppe.
Trade had shifted far north, farms and villages in the region dwindled, and the fabled lost mines of Aelgar remained lost in the tangled mountain ranges that began only a few miles to the south.
She altered the weave, and the opening dwindled into that silvery line once more then widened again.