dwindles

verb

present tense third-person singular of dwindle
1
as in reduces
to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent the long winter dwindled our supply of firewood to practically nothing

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2
as in decreases
to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually our hopes dwindled as the reports of more casualties came in

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Recent Examples of dwindles Chapter 9 — Caleb Caleb tries not to pay attention as the group dwindles. — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026 Torres' daughter's work dwindles during the rainy season in Texas, and the family only can afford one complete meal a day. — ABC News, 25 July 2026 But their patience dwindles, her son Telemachus (Tom Holland, his eternal boyishness put to great use) is getting easier to goad into a fight, and the blind swineherd Eumaeus (John Leguizamo) is all that’s left of the king’s loyal servants. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 15 July 2026 With legacy systems, drivers can practically feel the cart lose its spirit as the voltage dwindles. — Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 24 June 2026 And the mosquito population dwindles with each generation. — Bay City News, Mercury News, 4 June 2026 What these men accomplished is worth remembering and revering even as their number dwindles. — Miami Herald, 27 May 2026 Suzanne is electric with anger even as her physical strength dwindles. — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026 An anti-road novel in which the road dwindles and is swallowed up by the land and then re-forms, looping back to its starting place. — Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dwindles
  1. reduces
  2. decreases
  3. diminishes
  4. subsides
  5. depletes
  6. shrinks
  7. vanishes
  8. declines
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  • This eliminates manual handoffs, reduces errors and ensures cash flow is tracked from the first quote, not after the fact.
    — Ashish Srimal, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Swapping every other drink for a non-alcoholic option reduces total consumption and creates longer gaps between servings.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of reduces
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  • An autonomous vertical sail uses suction technology to draw air over this shape, creating propulsive thrust that decreases the mechanical burden on the vessel’s primary engines.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Perhaps seawater’s viscosity — which decreases as temperature increases, making the water thinner —affects ciliary movements, Shapiro said.
    — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of decreases
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  • Screening cover diminishes, and the birds will almost always be in lowland covers that offer both security and food.
    — Tom Huggler, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
  • When your nervous system becomes overwhelmed, your ability to access your best thinking, empathy, creativity and judgment diminishes.
    — Sharon A. Kuhn, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of diminishes
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  • The brutal nausea and vomiting of norovirus, for instance, subsides in one to three days; even the relentless diarrhea of cyclosporiasis can let up in a couple of days with an antibiotic.
    — Erica Sloan, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2026
  • That said, living in the South means there’s still a ways to go before the heat subsides, and until then, breathable summer staples will continue to define my outfits.
    — Kate Boswell, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of subsides
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  • Expertise is a stock of answers, and a stock depletes the moment the questions change.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Not like brushing shoulders with Lil Baby and Lil Yachty is a musical death sentence (Veeze is still tearing it up), but for a rapper who specialized in free-flowing street sermons, that slight touch of formalism and structure depletes the vibe.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 29 July 2026
Definition of depletes
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  • As Venus moves closer to Earth in its orbit, its apparent size increases, even as the illuminated portion shrinks.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The victorious stream grows longer and carries more water, while the losing stream shrinks or disappears.
    — Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of shrinks
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  • If the human vanishes at the moment of execution, then fraud, repudiation, and abuse all become easier to scale.
    — Raj Ananthanpillai, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • He gets brought back into his old life when his FBI agent daughter, Rebecca, vanishes on a mission.
    — Shelby Stivale, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of vanishes
Verb
  • Noticeable snowfall declines around the Great Lakes, Northeast, and upper Northwest.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Occupations with the greatest exposure to AI have not experienced widespread employment declines.
    — Adam Schickling, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026
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