dwindle

dwindle is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.To make less; to bring low. Our drooping days are dwindled down to naught. Thomson.
  2. 2.To break; to disperse. [R.] Clarendon.
  3. 3.The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy. [R.] Johnson.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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