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Definition of Dwindle down
1. Verb. Become smaller or lose substance. "Her savings dwindled down"
Generic synonyms: Decrease, Diminish, Fall, Lessen
Derivative terms: Dwindling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dwindle Down
Literary usage of Dwindle down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tablets of anatomy and physiology by Thomas Cooke (1878)
"... Ducts - Form : FALLOPIAN TUBES, UTERUS, & VAGINA, in the female, while, in
the male, they dwindle down into the Vesicula Prostatica, ..."
2. Chips from a German Workshop by Friedrich Max Müller, Christian Karl Josias Bunsen (1890)
"Empty words may lose their independence, may suffer phonetic decay, and dwindle
down to mere suffixes and terminations. Thus in Burmese the plural is formed ..."
3. Selected Essays on Language, Mythology and Religion by Friedrich Max Müller (1881)
"Empty words may lose their independence, may suffer phonetic decay, and dwindle
down to mere suffixes and terminations. Thus in Burmese the plural is formed ..."
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