Both Uses of
dwindle
in
Fahrenheit 451
- And you got in and we drove back to the firehouse in beatific silence, all dwindled away to peace.†
p. 104.4 *dwindled = decreased
- As the Hound seized him, in view of ten or twenty or thirty million people, mightn't he sum up his entire life in the last week in one single phrase or a word that would stay with them long after the Hound had turned, clenching him in its metal-plier jaws, and trotted off in darkness, while the camera remained stationary, watching the creature dwindle in the distance, a splendid fade-out!†
p. 128.9
Definition:
to gradually become smaller, fewer, or weaker