Vocabulary Word
Word: dwindle
Definition: shrink; reduce gradually
Definition: shrink; reduce gradually
Sentences Containing 'dwindle'
I remarked this in Peggotty, too, when she came down; and I have seen it since; and I think, in the expectation of that dread surprise, all other changes and surprises dwindle into nothing.
Then it was that I began, if I may so Shakespearianly express myself, to dwindle, peak, and pine.
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