All 3 Uses of
dwindle
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Here the spot stopped, and dwindled smaller.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- At length her onward walk dwindled to the merest totter, and she opened a gate within which was a haystack.†
Chpt 40-42
- The first person he met was poor Liddy, who seemed literally to have dwindled smaller in these few latter hours.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(dwindle) to decrease -- in count or substance