Usually means: Decreases gradually until little remains.
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  1. dwindles: Merriam-Webster
  2. dwindles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dwindles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dwindles, dwindles: Wordnik
  5. dwindles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dwindles: Wiktionary
  7. dwindles: Dictionary.com
  8. dwindles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. dwindles: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dwindles: Legal dictionary

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  1. dwindles: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  (colloquial) Various health problems and frailty observed in elderly people.

Similar:
dwindle away, dwindle down, dwindler, dwindlement, decline, wane, winddown, withering, tail-off, fading, more...

Opposite:
expands, grows, increases, flourishes

Types:
decreases, drops, declines, slows, lowers, weakens, dips, more...

Phrases:
apostle dwindles away, more...

Adjectives:
other, individual, latter, longer, sweet, magic, rich, last, future, new, available



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Similar:
dwindle away, dwindle down, dwindler, dwindlement, decline, wane, winddown, withering, tail-off, fading, more...

Opposite:
expands, grows, increases, flourishes

Types:
decreases, drops, declines, slows, lowers, weakens, dips, more...

Phrases:
apostle dwindles away, more...

Adjectives:
other, individual, latter, longer, sweet, magic, rich, last, future, new, available



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