dwindling

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English

Verb

dwindling

  1. present participle of dwindle

Adjective

dwindling (comparative more dwindling, superlative most dwindling)

  1. declining; growing less
    There is dwindling support for New Labour.
    • 2018 July 8, Euan McKirdy & Hilary Whiteman, “Thai cave rescue: Divers enter cave to free boys”, in edition.cnn.com[1], CNN, retrieved 2018-07-08:
      The first of the boys trapped in a Thai cave were rescued earlier today, and the mission has been temporarily suspended while teams restock supplies. But rescuers have a dwindling window of opportunity, with forecasters predicting the return of heavy monsoon rains in the coming days, effectively sealing off the cave until October.

Translations

Noun

dwindling (plural dwindlings)

  1. A gradual reduction to nothing.