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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dwindle.

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  • I don't think we see this as a verb applied to sentient things often enough: "—but the Queen was no longer at her side—she had suddenly dwindled down to the size of a little doll, and was now on the table, merrily running round and round after her own shawl(...)"

    July 18, 2008