All 3 Uses
dwindle
in
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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- Nanny sent Janie along with a stern mien, but she dwindled all the rest of the day as she worked.†
p. 24.6 *dwindled = decreased
- She dwindled down on the floor with her head in a rocking chair.†
p. 120.7
- He was a vanishing-looking kind of a man as if there used to be parts about him that stuck out individually but now he hadn't a thing about him that wasn't dwindled and blurred.†
p. 144.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(dwindle) to gradually become smaller, fewer, or weaker
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)