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dwindle

verb
🔊/ˈdwɪndl/
🔊/ˈdwɪndl/
[intransitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they dwindle
🔊/ˈdwɪndl/
🔊/ˈdwɪndl/
he / she / it dwindles
🔊/ˈdwɪndlz/
🔊/ˈdwɪndlz/
past simple dwindled
🔊/ˈdwɪndld/
🔊/ˈdwɪndld/
past participle dwindled
🔊/ˈdwɪndld/
🔊/ˈdwɪndld/
-ing form dwindling
🔊/ˈdwɪndlɪŋ/
🔊/ˈdwɪndlɪŋ/
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  1. to become gradually less or smaller（逐渐）减少，变小，缩小
    • dwindling audiences越来越少的观众
    • a dwindling band of supporters越来越少的支持者
    • dwindle (away) (to something) Support for the party has dwindled away to nothing.支持这个党派的力量渐渐化为乌有。🔊🔊
    • dwindle (from something) (to something) Membership of the club has dwindled from 70 to 20.俱乐部会员人数已从 70 减少到 20。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • Supplies of coal are dwindling fast.煤的供应量在迅速减少。
    • The group's support dwindled into insignificance.这个团体的支持减少到了微乎其微的地步。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • fast
    • quickly
    • rapidly
    • …
    preposition
    • into
    • to
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    Word Originlate 16th cent.: frequentative of Scots and dialect dwine ‘fade away’, from Old English dwīnan, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch dwīnen and Old Norse dvína.