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vb (svandt, svundet)F decline ( fx his influence (, strength) declined; as the day declined he...); fade ( fx hope of finding him alive is fading),( stærkere) dwindle ( fx his hope dwindled);( skrumpe ind) shrink ( fx meat shrinks in cooking),( om hævelse) go down ( fx my ankle is going down), decrease ( fxthe swelling decreased daily),( om lyd, lys: blive svagere) fade (away) ( fx the colours of the sky began to fade; the voices faded away into the distance), die away;[ svindende kræfter] ebbing (el. waning) strength;(se også svunden);[ med præp & adv:][ svinde bort, svinde hen] fade away,( om tid) pass,(se også ndf: svinde ind);[ det svandt i beholdningerne] the stocks dwindled (el. shrank),( stærkt) the stocks began to give out (, F: were depleted);[ svinde ind] decrease ( fx the population of the village had decreased to a few hundred people),( hen imod komplet forsvinden) dwindle ( fx the boat dwindled to a speck; his great fortune dwindled rapidly);( skrumpe ind) shrink ( fx metal shrinks when cooling; business at his shop has (, their earnings have) shrunk almost to nothing);
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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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
dwindle — UK US /ˈdwɪndl/ verb [I] ► to gradually become less, smaller, or lower in level: dwindle from sth to sth »The municipality s population has dwindled from 40,000 to 24,000. »dwindling funds/resources/stocks »Companies are having recruitment… … Financial and business terms
Dwindle — Dwin dle, v. t. 1. To make less; to bring low. [1913 Webster] Our drooping days are dwindled down to naught. Thomson. [1913 Webster] 2. To break; to disperse. [R.] Clarendon. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Dwindle — Dwin dle, n. The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy. [R.] Johnson. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
dwindle — index consume, decrease, deduct (reduce), depreciate, diminish, ebb, lessen, subside … Law dictionary
dwindle — 1590s, apparently diminutive and frequentative of M.E. dwinen waste away, fade, vanish, from O.E. dwinan, from P.Gmc. *dwinanan (Cf. Du. dwijnen to vanish, O.N. dvina, Dan. tvine, Low Ger. dwinen), from PIE *dheu (3) to die (see DIE (Cf. die) … Etymology dictionary
dwindle — diminish, lessen, *decrease, reduce, abate Analogous words: wane, ebb, *abate, subside: attenuate, extenuate, *thin: *moderate: disappear (see affirmative verb at APPEAR, 1) … New Dictionary of Synonyms
dwindle — [v] waste away; taper off abate, bate, become smaller, close, contract, decay, decline, decrease, die away, die down, die out, diminish, drain, drop, ebb, fade, fall, grow less, lessen, peter out*, pine, shrink, shrivel, sink, slack off*, subside … New thesaurus
dwindle — ► VERB ▪ diminish gradually. ORIGIN from Scots and dialect dwine «fade away» … English terms dictionary
dwindle — [dwin′dəl] vi., vt. dwindled, dwindling [freq. of obs. dwine, to languish, fade < ME dwinen < OE dwīnan, akin to ON dvína < IE base * dheu : see DIE1] to keep on becoming or making smaller or less; diminish; shrink SYN. DECREASE … English World dictionary
dwindle — v. (D; intr.) to dwindle (away) to (to dwindle to nothing) * * * [ dwɪndl] (D; intr.) to dwindle (away) to (to dwindle to nothing) … Combinatory dictionary