dwindle away

1. 1.

   become smaller or lose substance

   “Her savings dwindled down”

   Synonymsdwindledwindle down

   Broaderdecrease

Questions about dwindle away

What does dwindle away mean?

dwindle away means "become smaller or lose substance".

What is another word for dwindle away?

Close synonyms include dwindle, dwindle down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dwindle away a common word?

dwindle away is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.