dwindle

About 0.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.

   Their supplies began to dwindle after a week.

2. verb To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.
3. verb To lessen; to bring low.
4. verb To break up or disperse.

Similar words

dwindle away dwindle down decrease wane diminish shrink lessen reduce decline wither

Often followed by

into to away and in down as from with

Word family

dwindled dwindles dwindling