Definition of "dwindled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of dwindle. (verb)

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• "San Sebastián's population dwindled from a high of several thousand in the nineteenth century to just 600 today."
• "His only ever California friend, Liam, had dwindled from a tubbaguts programmer-shaped potato to a living skeleton on his death-bed the year before, herpes blooms run riot over his skin and bones in the absence of any immunoresponse."
• "As to having "had no political incentives" for whatever support he imagines he gave to Israel, how about the incentive of not being run out of office in 2004 had he not done so, and the loss of the tiny percentage of support by Americans that he'd managed to hang on to as his endless second term dwindled to national shame and shared international nightmare."