Associations to the word «Dwindle»

Wiktionary

DWINDLE, verb. (intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size.
DWINDLE, verb. (intransitive) (figuratively) To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.
DWINDLE, verb. To lessen; to bring low.
DWINDLE, verb. To break; to disperse.

Dictionary definition

DWINDLE, verb. Become smaller or lose substance; "Her savings dwindled down".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin