dwindling

dwindle | American Dictionary

dwindle
verb[ I ]
us/ˈdwɪn·dəl/
to become less in number or smaller:
The community had dwindled to a tenth of its former size.

dwindle | Business English

dwindle
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈdwɪndl/us
to gradually become less, smaller, or lower in level:
dwindle from sth to sthThe municipality's population has dwindled from 40,000 to 24,000.
dwindling funds/resources/stocks
Companies are having recruitment difficulties as they battle it out for a dwindling number of skilled staff.

Examples of dwindle

dwindle
However, the population dwindled and, in 1952, the quota was reduced.
Analysis of the data shows their proportions dwindling steadily.
But institutional pressures ensured that on widowhood such opportunities dwindled, and there was every incentive to remarry.
The fund contributors has dwindled to 200 from 575 a decade ago.
It is also a social crisis, as the spectacle of dwindling and impoverished health, educational, welfare and other social services attest.
Immigration at other ports dwindled, and, for expediency, immigrant medical inspection was increasingly conducted as part of the quarantine exam.
Pathetically invoking some common good, the liberal parties dwindled through the 1920s.
Groups that continued to reside near the lake shore turned to more marginal local resources as the wet gallery forest dwindled.
But attendance at the public meetings in this cause soon began to dwindle.
These all "dwindle down to this, and bring their littleness or greatness in fractional portions here" (530).
Or, even more mysteriously, how could that desire appear strongly for a time, only to slowly dwindle away, leaving a strange void?
They are still there but, proportionately speaking, their numbers have dwindled.
Thus, if the employment rate of those in their early 60s rises, the supply of grandparent childcare may start to dwindle.
The task of historians and the public is to make sure that interest does not dwindle.
Second, dwindling financial resources from the state force the institution into a more business-like institution.
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