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dwindledverbpast tense of dwindle to make smaller in amount, volume, or extentthe long winter dwindled our supply of firewood to practically nothing abated, decreased, de-escalated, dented, depleted, diminished, downscaled, downsized, dropped, eased, knocked down, lessened, lowered, reduced compressed, condensed, constricted, contractedabbreviated, abridged, clipped, cropped, curtailed, cut, cut back, cut down, docked, nicked, pared, pruned, retrenched, shortened, slashed, trimmed, truncated, whittleddeflated, shrank(or shrunk)minimizedmoderated, modified, modulated, qualified aggrandized, amplified, augmented, boosted, enlarged, escalated, expanded, increased, raised blew up, dilated, distended, inflated, swelledelongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged, protractedadded (to), complemented, supplementedenhanced, heightened, intensifiedredoubled to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallyour hopes dwindled as the reports of more casualties came in abated, declined, decreased, de-escalated, died (away or down or out), diminished, drained (away), dropped (off), eased, ebbed, fell, fell away, lessened, let up, lowered, moderated, palled, phased down, ratcheted (down)also racheted (down), receded, relented, remitted, shrank(or shrunk), subsided, tapered, tapered off, waned compressed, condensed, constricted, contractedevaporated, faded (away), frittered (away), gave out, melted (away), petered (out), tailed (off), vanishedslackened, slowed (down)alleviated, relaxedflagged, sank(or sunk), weakenedcaved (in), collapsed, deflated accumulated, ballooned, built, burgeoned(also bourgeoned), enlarged, escalated, expanded, grew, increased, intensified, mounted, mushroomed, picked up, rose, snowballed, soared, swelled, waxed appeared, emerged, showed upblew up, distended, elongated, lengthened |