All 5 Uses
dwindle
in
The Martian Chronicles
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- He was in the room another five minutes but never again addressed the solemn quartet that stood with heads down, their heavy legs sagging, the light dwindling from their eyes.†
Chpt 4dwindling = decreasing
- And this disease was called The Loneliness, because when you saw your home town dwindle the size of your fist and then lemon-size and then pin-size and vanish in the fire-wake, you felt you had never been born, there was no town, you were nowhere, with space all around, nothing familiar, only other strange men.†
Chpt 8
- Its six legs fell upon the ancient highway with the sounds of a sparse rain which dwindled away, and from the back of the machine a Martian with melted gold for eyes looked down at Tomas as if he were looking into a well.†
Chpt 11dwindled = decreased
- It burned with an unholy dripping glare for a minute, three times normal size, then dwindled.†
Chpt 21
- They dwindled down to a couple in the last few years.
Chpt 26 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(dwindle) to gradually become smaller, fewer, or weaker
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)