Word Meanings - DWINDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away. Weary sennights nine times nine Shall he dwindle, peak and pine. Shak. Religious societies, though begun with excellent intentions, are said to

Additional info about word: DWINDLE

To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away. Weary sennights nine times nine Shall he dwindle, peak and pine. Shak. Religious societies, though begun with excellent intentions, are said to have dwindled into factious clubs. Swift. (more info) LG. dwinen, D. dwijnen to vanish, Icel. dvina to cease, dwindle, Sw. tvina; of uncertain origin. The suffix -le, preceded by d excrescent

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DWINDLE)

• Decay Decline
• wane
• sink
• dwindle
• rot
• wither
• perish
• waste
• ebb
• decrease
• Fade
• Fall
• fail
• decline
• droop
• vanish
• change
• pale
• bleach
• set
• etiolate
• Waste
• Ruin
• destroy
• devastate
• impair
• consume
• squander
• dissipate
• throw away
• diminish
• lavish
• desolate
• pine
• decay
• attenuate
• shrivel

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DWINDLE)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold
• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge
• Increase
• amplify
• augment
• extend
• People
• colonize
• plant
• develop
• fertilize
• cultivate
• enrich
• enliven
• Husband
• store
• keep
• accumulate
• hoard
• treasure
• spare

Related words: (words related to DWINDLE)

• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• DESOLATE
  1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
• BLEACHED
  Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• ACCUMULATE
  To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• PERISHMENT
  The act of perishing. Udall.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• DEVASTATE
  To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .