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Meanings of dwindling away in English

Portuguese
abatimento
Spanish
mengua

A becoming gradually less.

abatimento
Usage of dwindling away in English
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And somewhere in those trees the path was dwindling away to nothing.
The evolutionary void
2
While the city authorities ponder pigeons and picnic sites, Venice is dwindling away.
The Guardian
3
But-ah, this was not the main track after all,-no ,itwas dwindling away.
Sunny Slopes
4
Yet slowly and surely was the rear guard dwindling away.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3
5
Her savings are nightly dwindling away at the gaming table.
The Secrets of the Great City / A Work Descriptive of the Virtue...
6
The Huguenot preachers, far from gaining fresh adherents, saw their flock steadily dwindling away.
The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
7
Emma could see his patience quickly dwindling away, like battery power on a cell phone.
The Lying Game
8
The dwindling away of the race is, however, inevitable.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
9
In a continuous, sustained concussion it raced across the sky, dwindling away into the east.
The Fountains of Paradise
10
Near these the herbage was thick, gradually dwindling away until it became lost in the sand.
At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt
11
Small red circles showed pockets of trapped German divisions, each fifteen thousand men, slowly dwindling away.
The Wolf’s Hour
12
To her surprise, the stubbornness lasted only moments longer before dwindling away to be replaced by chagrin.
Knife of dreams
13
Is Christianity slowly dwindling away, or is it moving into recovery mode after a few bad years?
The Irish Times
14
The distance which but a short time before had appeared immense, now seemed to be dwindling away.
A Love Episode
15
He stopped to watch the big dark delta-shape soar into the sky, dwindling away to the east.
The Reality Dysfunction
16
He was just dwindling away; and when the picture was almost done a fever took hold of him.
The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature
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Translations for dwindling away
Portuguese
abatimento
Spanish
mengua
Dwindling away through the time
Dwindling away across language varieties
United Kingdom
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