1. dwindles - Noun
2. dwindles - Verb
dwindles
third-person singular simple present indicative of dwindle
the dwindles pl (plural only)
(colloquial) Various health problems and frailty observed in elderly people.
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Oliver Goldsmith
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. Annie Dillard
I have much to say about the world, but every year the compulsion dwindles. Let them live and die; it is all one to me. Jack Vance
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror. Logan Pearsall Smith
Beyond the grave! As the vision rises how this side dwindles into nothing - a speck - a moment - and its glory and pomp shrink into the trinkets and baubles that amuse an infant for a day. Only those things, in the glory of this light, which lay hold of immortality, seem to have any value. Randolph Sinks Foster
Your windmill dwindles into a nutcrack. Portuguese Proverb