Crossword-Solution: DWINDLE 7 letters, 76 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Dwindle v. i. To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or
consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.
Dwindle v. t. To make less; to bring low.
Dwindle v. t. To break; to disperse.
Dwindle n. The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline;
degeneracy.

We have 76 clues for the answer “DWINDLE”

Clue Answers
grow less in size, strength, or number 1 answer
become smaller or lose substance 1 answer
Shrink in size slowly 1 answer
Lessen severely 1 answer
Die down, grow less 1 answer
MAKE fine 2 answers
Gradually become smaller 2 answers
Get lower and lower 2 answers
Diminish in size 2 answers
BECOME less 3 answers
Diminished gradually 4 answers
Gradually diminish 6 answers
GROW less 6 answers
Taper off 6 answers
Tail off 8 answers
drain away 8 answers
Flow Back 9 answers
Whittle 14 answers
BECOME smaller 16 answers
dry up 18 answers
Die down 18 answers
Peter out 19 answers
Waste (away) 20 answers
Taper 21 answers
extenuate 22 answers
attenuate 23 answers
Melt. 24 answers
deduct 26 answers
etiolate 30 answers
make pale 31 answers
grow pale 32 answers
Subside 33 answers
bate 34 answers
Shorten 35 answers
Dunk 35 answers
Bleach 38 answers
evaporate 38 answers
blanch 38 answers
MAKE lean 38 answers
Deflate 38 answers
sop 40 answers
Abridge 41 answers
depreciate 42 answers
submerge 42 answers
Plunge 42 answers
Scald 42 answers
douse 42 answers
MAKE small 43 answers
MAKE less bright 44 answers
Immerse 44 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
EORNCA
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with DWINDLE (5)

Here, no doubt, statistics of the former commerce of Salem might be discovered, and memorials of her princely merchants—old King Derby—old Billy Gray—old Simon Forrester—and many another magnate in his day, whose powdered head, however, was scarcely in the tomb before his mountain pile of wealth began to dwindle.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
There are flashes struck from midnights, there are fire-flames noon-days kindle, Whereby piled-up honors perish, whereby swollen ambitions dwindle, While just this or that poor impulse, which for once had play unstifled, Seems the sole work of a life-time that away the rest have trifled.” And again, when the Pope in ‘The Ring and the Book’ has come to the decision to sign the death-warrant of Guido and his accomplices, he says: “For the main criminal I have no hope except in such a SUDDENNESS OF FATE.
Introduction to Robert Browning Hiram Corson 2008
She could not have remained in New York without repaying the money she owed to Trenor; to acquit herself of that odious debt she might even have faced a marriage with Rosedale; but the accident of placing the Atlantic between herself and her obligations made them dwindle out of sight as if they had been milestones and she had travelled past them.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
This hamadryad was destined in the outcome to dwindle into a village housewife, she would have taken a lively interest in the number of eggs the hens were laying, she would even have assured her children, precisely in the way her father spoke of John Hughes, that young people ordinarily have foolish fancies which their rational elders agree to disregard.
The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 2008
Every practice must dwindle at this time of year.” “That’s all very well,” said he, pacing up and down the room, with his hands thrust into his pockets, and his great shaggy eyebrows knotted together.
The Stark Munro Letters J. Stark Munro 1995

Quotes with DWINDLE (3)

But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander and better world; for if the mind grows used to the trivia of daily life, it may dwindle too much and decline altogether into worthless thoughts.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Major Works
Nothing can dwindle to nothing, as Nature restores one thing from the stuff of another, nor does she allow a birth, without a corresponding death.
Titus Lucretius Carus The Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura
I? I walk alone; The midnight street Spins itself from under my feet; My eyes shut These dreaming houses all snuff out; Through a whim of mine Over gables the moon's celestial onion Hangs high. IMake houses shrink And trees diminish By going far; my look's leash Dangles the puppet-people Who, unaware how they dwindle, Laugh, kiss, get drunk, Nor guess that if I choose to blink They die. IWhen in good humour, Give grass its green Blazon sky blue, and endow the sun With gold; Y…
Sylvia Plath The Collected Poems
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, Universal, WSJ.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1998–2023).