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RELATED WORD : dwindling away

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun dwindling has 1 sense

• dwindling(n = noun.event) dwindling away - a becoming gradually less; "there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family"
is a kind of decrease, drop-off, lessening
has particulars: fading away
Derived form verb dwindle₁

Adjective dwindling has 1 sense

• dwindling(s = adj.all) tapering, tapering off - gradually decreasing until little remains; Array

THESAURUS

dwindling

at rest, calm, catabasis, cloistered, collapse, coming apart, contractive, cool, cracking, crash, crumbling, decadent, deceleration, declension, decline, decline and fall, declining, decreasing, decrescendo, decrescent, degenerate, deliquescent, deteriorating, diminishing, diminuendo, disintegrating, dive, downtrend, downturn, draining, drooping, drop, dying, ebb, ebbing, effete, even-tenored, fading, failing, fall, falling, flagging, fragmenting, going to pieces, halcyon, hushed, impassive, isolated, languishing, lapse, lessening, marcescent, moldering, on the wane, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, pining, placid, plunge, quiescent, quiet, receding, reductive, regressive, remission, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, retiring, retreat, retreating, retrograde, retrogressive, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, shrinking, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slowdown, slump, slumping, smooth, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsidence, subsiding, tabetic, tranquil, unagitated, undisturbed, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, wane, waning, wasting, wilting, withering, worsening

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