Both Uses of
dwindle
in
The Chrysalids
- You'll find islands where the people are all thickset, and others where they're thin; there are even said to be some islands where both the men and women would be passed as true images if it weren't that some strange deviation has turned them all completely black — though even that's easier to believe than the one about a race of Deviations that has dwindled to two feet high, grown fur and a tail, and taken to living in trees.†
Chpt 6dwindled = decreased
- The distance — and the difference — between us dwindled and vanished.†
Chpt 14 *
Definition:
to decrease -- in count or substance