Crossword-Solution: DWINDLED 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Dwindled imp. & p. p. of Dwindle

We have 7 clues for the answer “DWINDLED”

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Approached zero 1 answer
Became less. 2 answers
Declined gradually 2 answers
Shrank 4 answers
Petered out 9 answers
Lessened 12 answers
shrunk 17 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZACMEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DWINDLED (5)

The first person he met was poor Liddy, who seemed literally to have dwindled smaller in these few latter hours.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Only one other part of the body had a strong case for survival, and that was the hand, “teacher and agent of the brain.” While the rest of the body dwindled, the hands would grow larger.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
For a few minutes, the sharp cracking of guns ahead warned them to haste, but finally the reports dwindled to an occasional shot, presently ceasing altogether.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The young ladies of Highbury might have walked again in safety before their panic began, and the whole history dwindled soon into a matter of little importance but to Emma and her nephews:—in her imagination it maintained its ground, and Henry and John were still asking every day for the story of Harriet and the gipsies, and still tenaciously setting her right if she varied in the slightest particular from the original recital.
Emma Jane Austen 1994
Even McTeague himself, big boned and enormous as he was, shrank and dwindled in the presence of the monster.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006

Quotes with DWINDLED (3)

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson
In a matter of a moment the amount of sand in the upper part of the hour-glass had dwindled dramatically, the tiny grains were rushing through the opening, each grain more eager to leave then the last, time is just like people, sometimes it’s all it can do to drag itself along, but at others, it runs like a deer and leaps like a young goat, which, when you think about it, is not saying much, since the cheetah is the fastest of all the animals, and yet it has never occurred to…
Jose Saramago Seeing
The forest has shrunk And fear has expanded, The forests have dwindled, There are less animals now, less courage and less lightning, less beauty and the moon lies bare, deflowered by force and then abandoned.
Visar Zhiti The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WSJ.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1979–2024).