Synonyms for dwindle
Definitions
- v. 1
To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size or intensity.
Interest in the project slowly dwindled.
Related words
- Word family
- dwindling
Forms
- Past participle
- dwindled
e.g. dwindled → declined, diminished, waned, decreased…
Example sentences
- decline I had to decline the invitation because I was ill.
- diminish This doesn't give him the right to diminish Muslims.
- wane Love's intensity can wane as familiarity grows.
- disperse The police hurried to disperse the riots with force.
By length
- 4 letters
- sink1, pine1, melt1, fade1, wane1
- 5 letters
- waste1, decay2, abate2, wanse
- 6 letters
- shrink1, lessen2, wither2
- 7 letters
- decline2
- 8 letters
- decrease2, diminish3, disperse2
- 10 letters
- degenerate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (decay2 = 2 syllables).