Dwindle vs Recoil - What's the difference?
dwindle | recoil |
To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size.
* 1802 , , translated by T. Paynell,
(figuratively) To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1919 ,
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To lessen; to bring low.
* Thomson
To break; to disperse.
A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
The state or condition of having recoiled.
* F. W. Robertson
(firearms) The amount of energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function of the weight of the weapon, the weight of the projectile, and the speed at which it leaves the muzzle.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
(obsolete) To retire, withdraw.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.x:
* Milton
* De Quincey
To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
As verbs the difference between dwindle and recoil
is that dwindle is to decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size while recoil is .As a noun recoil is
a starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.dwindle
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Verb
(dwindl)- [E]very thing that was improving gradually degenerates and dwindles away to nothing,
- The flattery of his friends began to dwindle into simple approbation.'' (''Goldsmith , Vicar, III)
- Religious societies, though begun with excellent intentions, are said to have dwindled into factious clubs.
- The larger the empire, the more dwindles the mind of the citizen.
- Our drooping days are dwindled down to naught.
- (Clarendon)
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recoil
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(wikipedia recoil)Noun
(en noun)- the recoil of nature, or of the blood
- The recoil from formalism is skepticism.
Verb
- that rude rout
- Ye both forwearied be: therefore a whyle / Iread you rest, and to your bowres recoyle .
- Evil on itself shall back recoil .
- The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits.
- He recoiled in disgust when he saw the mess.
- (Shakespeare)