dwindle down

1. 1.

   become smaller or lose substance

   “Her savings dwindled down”

   Synonymsdwindledwindle away

   Broaderdecrease

Questions about dwindle down

What does dwindle down mean?

dwindle down means "become smaller or lose substance".

What is another word for dwindle down?

Close synonyms include dwindle, dwindle away. 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 down a common word?

dwindle down 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.