Verb:

दुर्बल होना, महत्त्व खोना, भ्रष्ट हो चलना, कम हो चलना, क्षीण होना, सूखना,

dwindled's Usage Examples:

Under the later Roman Empire the city dwindled into a mere village, which since the 6th century bore the Slavonic name of Goritza.

In Protestant countries casuistry shrank and dwindled, though works on the subject continued to be written both in Germany and England during the 17th century.

Kutuzov merely shrugged his shoulders when one after another they presented projects of maneuvers to be made with those soldiers-- ill-shod, insufficiently clad, and half starved--who within a month and without fighting a battle had dwindled to half their number, and who at the best if the flight continued would have to go a greater distance than they had already traversed, before they reached the frontier.

steeplechase races had dwindled in numbers.

The laundry was one place she hadn't been yet and her wardrobe had dwindled down to a few clean items - none of them appropriate for a ride around the countryside with a man she hardly knew.

The council gradually dwindled, and probably came to an end without formal abolition.

The population, estimated by James Bruce in 1770 at 10,000 families, had dwindled in 1905 to about 7000.

In 1826-1828 the town became for a time the capital of Greece and the centre of a large commercial population (about Io,000), which has dwindled to about 4300.

From this time onward the village dwindled to the poor dirty place it is to-day.

As the afternoon dwindled, the Deans were content to rock and ruminate.

Synonyms:

dwindle down, fall, lessen, dwindle away, diminish, decrease,

Antonyms:

lengthen, inflate, expand, crescendo, increase,