Crossword-Solution: DWINDLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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 |
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| 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, Universal, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1998–2023).