Both Uses of
dwindle
in
The Age of Innocence
- His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.†
Chpt 22 *
- Don't suppose that I don't understand your reasons for not wanting to let this feeling between us dwindle into an ordinary hole-and-corner love-affair.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(dwindle) to decrease -- in count or substance