dwindle /ˈdwɪn.dəl/ verb4 •To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.Their supplies began to dwindle after a week.Interest in the project slowly dwindled. •To lessen; to bring low.Our drooping days are dwindled down to nought. — 1749 •(figurative) To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.VVearie Seu'nights, nine times nine, / Shall he dvvindle, peake, and pine: […] — 1606 •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 away — 1702 formsdwindled · dwindling · dwindles · dwindleth