All 4 Uses of
dwindle
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Their dog ambled about a bank of dwindling sand, trotting, sniffing on all sides.†
Chpt 3 *dwindling = decreasing
- Practice dwindling.†
Chpt 7
- The aged sisters draw us into life: we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: over us dead they bend.†
Chpt 14
- But hey, presto, the mirror is breathed on and the young knighterrant recedes, shrivels, dwindles to a tiny speck within the mist.†
Chpt 14dwindles = decreases
Definition:
to gradually become smaller, fewer, or weaker