dwindle down
Frequency: 6.09.1 per million words
To decrease in number or amount to a smaller level.
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- The camp's food supplies started to dwindle down after the first week.
- My savings account has dwindled down to almost nothing after those unexpected expenses.
- The town's population dwindled down as young people moved away for better opportunities.
- His initial enthusiasm for the project quickly dwindled down when he saw the amount of work required.
- We need to reorder soon; our stock is dwindling down faster than expected.
- As winter approaches, the hours of daylight will gradually dwindle down.
- The number of attendees dwindled down to just a handful by the end of the long conference.
- By the time help arrived, their emergency water reserves had dwindled down to a single bottle.
- You can watch the pile of cookies dwindle down as the kids come home from school.
- The once-mighty army dwindled down to a small band of exhausted survivors.