Both Uses of
dwindle
in
Bleak House
- —and your mother, who was a prudent woman as dry as a chip, just dwindled away like touchwood after you and Judy were born—you are an old pig.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- Closed in by night with broad screens, and illumined only in that part, the light of the drawing-room seems gradually contracting and dwindling until it shall be no more.†
Chpt 66-67
Definition:
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(dwindle) to decrease -- in count or substance