dwindle
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Is dwindle a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.Examples: "1802, T. Paynell (translator), Erasmus, The Complaint of Peace [E]very thing that was improving gradually degenerates and dwindles away to nothing, […]"Synonyms: fade away, peter out, spin down, trail off, wane, wanseintransitive
2. (intransitive, figuratively) To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.Examples: "VVearie Seu'nights, nine times nine, / Shall he dvvindle, peake, and pine: […]"; "Religious Societies, though begun with excellent Intention, and by Perſons of true Piety, have dwindled into factious Clubs; […]"; "The flattery of his friends began to dwindle into simple approbation."figurativelyintransitive
3. (transitive) To lessen; to bring low.Examples: "Our drooping days are dwindled down to nought."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary