dwindles

Verb

dwindle (third-person singular simple present dwindles, present participle dwindling, simple past and past participle dwindled)

1. (intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
   • Their supplies began to dwindle after a week.

   Synonyms:

   fade away, peter out, spin down, trail off, wane, wanse

2. (figuratively, intransitive) To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.
   • VVearie Seu'nights, nine times nine, / Shall he dvvindle, peake, and pine: […]c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
3. (transitive) To lessen; to bring low.
   • Our drooping days are dwindled down to nought.a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
4. To break up or disperse.
   • there were only five hundred foot and three hundred horse left with him, for the blocking of Plymouth; the rest were dwindled away1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed...