Dwindling can be categorized as a verb, an adjective and a noun.
Adjective |
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| dwindling - gradually decreasing until little remains | ||
Verb |
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| dwindle - become smaller or lose substance; "Her savings dwindled down" | ||
Noun |
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| dwindling - a becoming gradually less; "there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family" |
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| 1. | noun | There is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family. | |
| 2. | adj. | Dwindling resources have hampered the efforts of police to stem the rise of violent crime in the city. | |
| 3. | verb | Their numbers are dwindling. | |
| 4. | verb | From a walk in the park it turned into a descent into maelstrom followed by a dwindling spiral of inadequate resources and insufficient time. | |
| 5. | verb | Our water supplies are dwindling. | |
| 6. | verb | Tom informed Mary that their food supplies were dwindling. | |
| 7. | verb | The dwindling supply led to great anxiety in the community. | |
| 8. | verb | The number of giraffes is dwindling. | |
| 9. | verb | Giraffe populations are dwindling. | |
| 10. | verb | Algeria's foreign reserves are dwindling. | |
| 11. | verb | We've made great inroads into solving the problem, but our resources dwindle and the end is not in sight. |
| Sentence | |
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| noun | |
| There is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family. |
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| adj. | |
| Dwindling resources have hampered the efforts of police to stem the rise of violent crime in the city. | |
| verb | |
| Their numbers are dwindling. | |
| From a walk in the park it turned into a descent into maelstrom followed by a dwindling spiral of inadequate resources and insufficient time. | |
| Our water supplies are dwindling. | |
| Tom informed Mary that their food supplies were dwindling. | |
| The dwindling supply led to great anxiety in the community. | |
| The number of giraffes is dwindling. | |
| Giraffe populations are dwindling. | |
| Algeria's foreign reserves are dwindling. | |
| We've made great inroads into solving the problem, but our resources dwindle and the end is not in sight. | |