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dwindles | windles |

As a verb dwindles

is (dwindle).

As a noun windles is

or windles can be a winch, a windlass.

dwindles

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dwindle)

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    dwindle

    English

    Verb

    (dwindl)
  • To decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size.
  • * 1802 , , translated by T. Paynell,
    • [E]very thing that was improving gradually degenerates and dwindles away to nothing,
  • (figuratively) To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.
    • The flattery of his friends began to dwindle into simple approbation.'' (''Goldsmith , Vicar, III)
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Religious societies, though begun with excellent intentions, are said to have dwindled into factious clubs.
  • * 1919 ,
    • The larger the empire, the more dwindles the mind of the citizen.
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  • To lessen; to bring low.
  • * Thomson
    • Our drooping days are dwindled down to naught.
  • To break; to disperse.
    • (Clarendon)

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    windles

    English

    Etymology 1

    See windle

    Noun

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    From slurred pronunciation of windlass.

    Noun

  • A winch, a windlass.
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