2 to gradually become less, smaller, or lower in level:
dwindle from sth to sth The municipality's population has dwindled from 40,000 to 24,000.
Companies are having recruitment difficulties as they battle it out for a dwindling number of skilled staff.
However, the population dwindled and, in 1952, the quota was reduced.
Analysis of the data shows their proportions dwindling steadily.
But institutional pressures ensured that on widowhood such opportunities dwindled, and there was every incentive to remarry.
The fund contributors has dwindled to 200 from 575 a decade ago.
It is also a social crisis, as the spectacle of dwindling and impoverished health, educational, welfare and other social services attest.
Immigration at other ports dwindled, and, for expediency, immigrant medical inspection was increasingly conducted as part of the quarantine exam.
Pathetically invoking some common good, the liberal parties dwindled through the 1920s.
Groups that continued to reside near the lake shore turned to more marginal local resources as the wet gallery forest dwindled.
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減小, 降低, 減少…
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减小, 降低, 减少…
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ir desapareciendo, ir disminuyendo, disminuirse…
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ir desaparecendo, ir diminuindo…
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~が次第に小さくなる, ~が次第に少なくなる…
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azalmak, küçülmek…
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diminuer…
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