dwindle

dwindle['dwindl]

• vi.
  • 变得越来越小，逐渐变小，缩小；减少；消瘦：

    Their vast fortune has dwindled away.

    他们的大笔财产已逐渐减少。

    Their food supply dwindled when they were lost in the woods.

    当他们在森林里迷路时，他们的食物贮存减少了。

  • (质量)衰退，退化，变坏；衰落；堕落：

    The old man's health dwindled slowly day by day.

    老人的身体日渐衰弱。

    His reputation dwindled greatly.

    他的声誉大减。

• vt.
  • 使变得越来越小，使变小，使缩小，使缩减，使收缩；使减少；使衰退；使衰落：

    Failing health dwindles ambition.

    健康每况愈下使人志气衰退。

• n.
  • [用复数] [委婉语]垂暮之年
• 近义词:

  decrease

• 变形:

  vi.dwindled.dwindling

• (do sth) with grandeur
• debase
• Z chromosome
• choreologist
• wallhanging
• phyco-
• nationalities
• surcharges
• retried
• plant protease concentrate
• park avenues
• moon pillar
• leg and leg
• thermal printers
• brain life
• paramagnetic crystal
• walk turkey
• asham
• lounge about
• fall aboard (of)
• sanguino-
• hungaries
• meretriciousnesses
• wound up
• propitiation
• tired
• keep one's finger on the pulse of
• Oxford frame
• daimioes
• bulbul
• call money
• verbal / linguistic gymnastics
• autocatalytically
• lie in the bed one has made
• lausenite
• princocks
• round into
• agricultural implement
• active materials
• hold the lead
• grandmama
• vacua
• wisper wind
• prodigal
• option card
• Demodicidae
• torch song
• Kordofan
• spring-loadeds
• bar foot
• dravest
• hole cards
• optical activity
• juvenilities
• covalently
• not know beans about
• heptahedron
• tractor loader
• red-topped
• inductura
• epizooties
• ancestroecium
• explanatoriness
• unyoked
• ecosocs
• Neo-Thomistic
• BSE-free
• meshy
• i.p.a.
• flatterable
• spinal reflex
• geotextile
• present a bold on
• cleomes
• injected gas
• Big Springs
• density bottle
• intent on
• until
• social dialectologist
• sheepshearer
• tranquillo
• calvarial
• be sick (and tired) of (doing) sth
• draw on
• perionychia
• knotworks
• Kanaka
• river cow
• bhawan
• Covington
• hippophagous
• CZ
• serjeancy
• enolase
• unillusioned
• disselbooms
• rid或ridded
• it's the thought that counts
• substrates