dwindle

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vi. 减少, 缩小, 衰落 vt. 使缩小

发音

UK /ˈdwɪn.dəl/
US /ˈdwɪn.dəl/
AU

词形变化

dwindled dwindles 三单 dwindles dwindleth dwindling dwindling 现在分词 dwindled 过去式 dwindled 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

减少；变小

动词

使缩小，使减少

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.

    缩小

    减少

    不及物

    Their supplies began to dwindle after a week.

    Interest in the project slowly dwindled.

    dwindle away

    dwindle to nothing

    dwindle steadily

    1802, T. Paynell (translator), Erasmus, The Complaint of Peace [E]very thing that was improving gradually degenerates and dwindles away to nothing, […]

  2. 2.

    To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.

    比喻 不及物
  3. 3.

    To lessen; to bring low.

    及物
  4. 4.

    To break up or disperse.

词汇关系

动词

上位词 4

fall decrease diminish lessen

相关短语

fall dwindle disease

词源

Frequentative form of dwine, from Middle English dwinen, from Old English dwīnan (“to waste away”), from Proto-West Germanic *dwīnan, from Proto-Germanic *dwīnaną. It is equivalent to dwine + -le, akin to Old Norse dvena, dvína, Dutch verdwijnen (“to disappear, dwindle”).

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