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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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But after that population swell passes, leaf-peeping and its related revenue could dwindle.
Our uranium reserves will sustain us for hundreds of years as carbon fuels dwindle.
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.
Buxom for her age, like so many pubescent children she seemed to have siphoned off vital bulk from her parents and left them to dwindle, wizen.
When resources dwindle, the slime mold is reprogrammed to produce spore-bearing fruit bodies.
As audiences dwindle everywhere else, Orcadians of all ages are jostling for tickets.

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