{
    "term": "dwindle",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "dwindle",
            "heSheIt": "dwindles"
        },
        "pastSimple": "dwindled",
        "pastParticiple": "dwindled",
        "ingForm": "dwindling"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to become gradually less or smaller",
            "sensetop": "dwindle (away) (to something)dwindle (from something) (to something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "dwindling audiences"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a dwindling band of supporters"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Support for the party has dwindled away to nothing.",
                    "contextForm": "dwindle (away) (to something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Membership of the club has dwindled from 70 to 20.",
                    "contextForm": "dwindle (from something) (to something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Supplies of coal are dwindling fast."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The group's support dwindled into insignificance."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["fast", "quickly", "rapidly"],
                "preposition": ["into", "to"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdwɪndl/",
                "audio": "dw/dwindle/dwindle__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdwɪndlz/",
                "audio": "dw/dwindle/dwindles__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdwɪndld/",
                "audio": "dw/dwindle/dwindled__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdwɪndlɪŋ/",
                "audio": "dw/dwindle/dwindling__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdwɪndl/",
                "audio": "dw/dwindle/dwindle__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdwɪndlz/",
                "audio": "dw/dwindle/dwindles__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdwɪndld/",
                "audio": "dw/dwindle/dwindled__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdwɪndlɪŋ/",
                "audio": "dw/dwindle/dwindling__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: frequentative of Scots and dialect dwine ‘fade away’, from Old English dwīnan, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch dwīnen and Old Norse dvína."
}