0 to become smaller in size or amount, or fewer in number: --
2 to gradually become less, smaller, or lower in level: --
Companies are having recruitment difficulties as they battle it out for a dwindling number of skilled staff.
dwindle from sth to sth The municipality's population has dwindled from 40,000 to 24,000.
Second, dwindling financial resources from the state force the institution into a more business-like institution.
The task of historians and the public is to make sure that interest does not dwindle.
Thus, if the employment rate of those in their early 60s rises, the supply of grandparent childcare may start to dwindle.
They are still there but, proportionately speaking, their numbers have dwindled.
Or, even more mysteriously, how could that desire appear strongly for a time, only to slowly dwindle away, leaving a strange void?
These all "dwindle down to this, and bring their littleness or greatness in fractional portions here" (530).
But attendance at the public meetings in this cause soon began to dwindle.
Groups that continued to reside near the lake shore turned to more marginal local resources as the wet gallery forest dwindled.
