dwindle

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• UK, US: /ˈdwɪn.dəl/
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• CMU ARPABET: D W IH1 N D AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Frequentative form of dwine, from Middle English dwynen, from Old English dwīnan (“to waste away”), from Proto-West Germanic *dwīnan, from Proto-Germanic *dwīnaną. It is equivalent to dwine + -le, akin to Old Norse dvena, dvína, Dutch verdwijnen (“to disappear, dwindle”).

79 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: смалявам се (smaljavam se) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Bulgarian: свивам се (svivam se) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Catalan: disminuir — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Catalan: afeblir-se — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Catalan: minvar — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Chinese Mandarin: 縮小 /缩小 (suōxiǎo) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Chinese Mandarin: 減少 /减少 (jiǎnshǎo) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Czech: ubývat — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Czech: zmenšovat se — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Dutch: verdwijnen — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Dutch: smelten — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Dutch: krimpen — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Finnish: vähetä — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Finnish: huveta — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Finnish: haipua — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• French: diminuer — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• French: fondre — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• French: s'amenuiser — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• French: se tarir — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• French: se dessécher — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• French: disparaître — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• French: s'évanouir — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• French: décroître — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Galician: minguar — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Galician: diminuír — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Galician: reducir — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Galician: decrecer — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Georgian: იკლებს (iḳlebs) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Georgian: დაიკლებს (daiḳlebs) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Georgian: მცირდება (mcirdeba) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Georgian: შემცირდება (šemcirdeba) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Georgian: ილევა (ileva) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Georgian: გამოილევა (gamoileva) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• German: schwinden — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• German: abnehmen — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Hungarian: fogy — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Hungarian: apad — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Hungarian: csökken — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Hungarian: elenyészik — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Hungarian: gyengül — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Hungarian: kevesbedik — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Hungarian: kisebbedik — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Hungarian: megcsappan — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Hungarian: sorvad — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Icelandic: dvína — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Ido: diminutar — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Italian: restringersi — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Italian: diminuire — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Japanese: 減少する (genshō suru) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Macedonian: се све́де (se svéde) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Macedonian: се сма́ли (se smáli) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Māori: tāharahara — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Middle English: dwynen — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Navajo: áádįįł — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Polish: umniejszać — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Portuguese: diminuir — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Portuguese: decrescer — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Russian: уменьша́ться (umenʹšátʹsja) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Russian: уме́ньшиться (uménʹšitʹsja) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Russian: сокраща́ться (sokraščátʹsja) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Russian: сократи́ться (sokratítʹsja) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Scottish Gaelic: crìon — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Serbo-Croatian: сви̏снути — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Serbo-Croatian: svȉsnuti — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Spanish: disminuir — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Spanish: agotarse — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Spanish: desaparecer — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Spanish: menguar — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Spanish: decrecer — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Spanish: reducirse — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Spanish: quedar reducido — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Swedish: minska — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Swedish: krympa — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Swedish: förtvina — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Ukrainian: зменшуватися (zmenšuvatysja) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Ukrainian: скорочуватися (skoročuvatysja) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Ukrainian: убувати (ubuvaty) — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Vietnamese: suy yếu — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish
• Vietnamese: tiêu giảm — (intransitive) to decrease, shrink, vanish