dwindle

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈdwɪn.dəl/    美 /ˈdwɪn.dəl/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity. intransitive
    — Their supplies began to dwindle after a week.
  2. To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink. figuratively,intransitive
    — VVearie Seu'nights, nine times nine, / Shall he dvvindle, peake, and pine: […]
  3. To lessen; to bring low. transitive
    — Our drooping days are dwindled down to nought.
  4. To break up or disperse.
    — there were only five hundred foot and three hundred horse left with him, for the blocking of Plymouth; the rest were dwindled away

词形变化

dwindles present,singular,third-person dwindling participle,present dwindled participle,past dwindled past

词汇关系

衍生词
dwindlement dwindles dwindling fall dwindle disease

词源

Frequentative form of dwine, from Middle English dwynen, from Old English dwīnan (“to waste away”), from Proto-West Germanic *dwīnan, from Proto-Germanic *dwīnaną. It is equivalent to dwine + -le, akin to Old Norse dvena, dvína, Dutch verdwijnen (“to disappear, dwindle”).
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