English-Thai Dictionary

dwindle

VI หดตัว  diminish shrink thin enlarge increase hod-tua

 

dwindle away

PHRV ลดลง ไป ทีละน้อย  ค่อยๆ  น้อยลง  lod-long-pai-ti-la-noi

 

dwindle down

PHRV ลดลง ไป ทีละน้อย  ค่อยๆ  น้อยลง  lod-long-pai-ti-la-noi

 

dwindle to

PHRV ค่อยๆ ลดลง จน หมด  ค่อยๆ  ลดลง จน หมด  koi-koi-lod-long-jon-mod

 

dwindlement

N การ ทำให้ เล็ก ลง  kan-tam-ngarn-hai-lek-long

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DWINDLE

v.i. 1. To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away. The body dwindles by pining or consumption; an estate swindles by waste, by want of industry or economy; an object dwindles in size, as it recedes from view; an army dwindles by death or desertion.
Our drooping days have dwindled down to naught.
2. To degenerate; to sink; to fall away.
Religious societies may dwindle into factious clubs.

 

DWINDLE

v.t.To make less; to bring low. 1. To break; to disperse.

 

DWINDLED

a.Shrunk; diminished in size.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DWINDLE

Dwin "dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dwindled; p. pr. & vb. n. Dwindling. ]Etym: [From OE. dwinen to languish, waste away, AS. dwinan; akin to LG. dwinen, D. dwijnen to vanish, Icel. dvina to cease, dwindle, Sw. tvina; of uncertain origin. The suffix -le, preceded by d excrescent after n, is added to the root with a diminutive force. ]

 

Defn: To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away. Weary sennights nine times nine Shall he dwindle, peak and pine. Shak. Religious societies, though begun with excellent intentions, are said to have dwindled into factious clubs. Swift.

 

DWINDLE

DWINDLE Dwin "dle, v. t.

 

1. To make less; to bring low. Our drooping days are dwindled down to naught. Thomson.

 

2. To break; to disperse. [R.] Clarendon.

 

DWINDLE

DWINDLE Dwin "dle, n.

 

Defn: The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy. [R.] Johnson.

 

DWINDLEMENT

DWINDLEMENT Dwin "dle *ment, n.

 

Defn: The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. [R.] Mrs. Oliphant.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dwindle

dwin dle |ˈdwindl ˈdwɪndl | ▶verb [ no obj. ] diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength: traffic has dwindled to a trickle | (as adj. dwindling ) : dwindling resources. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: frequentative of Scots and dialect dwine ‘fade away, ’ from Old English dwīnan, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch dwīnen and Old Norse dvína.

 

Oxford Dictionary

dwindle

dwin ¦dle |ˈdwɪnd (ə )l | ▶verb [ no obj. ] diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength: traffic has dwindled to a trickle | (as adj. dwindling ) : dwindling resources. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: frequentative of Scots and dialect dwine ‘fade away ’, from Old English dwīnan, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch dwīnen and Old Norse dvína.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

dwindle

dwindle verb 1 the population dwindled: diminish, decrease, reduce, lessen, shrink; fall off, tail off, drop, fall, slump, plummet; disappear, vanish, die out; informal nosedive. ANTONYMS increase. 2 her career dwindled: decline, deteriorate, fail, slip, slide, fade, go downhill, go to rack and ruin; informal go to pot, go to the dogs, hit the skids, go down the tubes, go down the drain, go down the toilet. ANTONYMS flourish.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

dwindle

dwindle verb 1 the porpoise population has dwindled: diminish, decrease, reduce, get smaller, become smaller, grow smaller, become less, grow less, lessen, wane, contract, shrink, fall off, taper off, tail off, drop, fall, go down, sink, slump, plummet; disappear, vanish, die out; informal nosedive, take a nosedive. ANTONYMS increase. 2 her career dwindled over the years: decline, degenerate, deteriorate, fail, ebb, wane, sink, slip, slide, go downhill, go to rack and ruin, decay, wither, fade, fade away; informal peter out, go to pot, go to the dogs, hit the skids, go down the toilet, go down the tubes; Austral. /NZ informal go to the pack. ANTONYMS flourish.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dwindle

dwin dle /dwɪ́nd (ə )l /動詞 自動詞 1 〈数 量 力などが 〉 «…から /…に » だんだん減少する, 弱まる (away )(decrease ) «from /to , into » .2 〈名声などが 〉衰える, 低下する, なくなる .他動詞 …を小さくする, 減少させる .