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What does dwindle mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.
  3. (transitive) To lessen; to bring low.
  4. To break up or disperse.
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This is a similar trend to that of rail freight whose market shares continue to dwindle.
The premiums continue to rise each year while the amount of coverage seems to dwindle.
As the world's oil resources continue to dwindle, the competition to find an alternative fuel increases in intensity.
Being in daily touch with a lot of abattoirs, I feel that the supplies of cattle are starting to dwindle and that demand will improve ere long.
Our uranium reserves will sustain us for hundreds of years as carbon fuels dwindle.
But after that population swell passes, leaf-peeping and its related revenue could dwindle.

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