Synonyms of dwindling

dwindling

verb

present participle of dwindle

1

as in reducing

to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent

the long winter dwindled our supply of firewood to practically nothing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• reducing
• decreasing
• depleting
• diminishing
• lowering
• lessening
• easing
• downsizing
• minimizing
• slashing
• denting
• cutting
• dropping
• shrinking
• abating
• knocking down
• compressing
• downscaling
• shortening
• de-escalating
• contracting
• trimming
• curtailing
• paring
• constricting
• cutting down
• whittling
• retrenching
• condensing
• truncating
• cutting back
• clipping
• pruning
• abridging
• cropping
• abbreviating
• nicking
• modifying
• deflating
• docking
• modulating
• moderating
• qualifying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• increasing
• expanding
• escalating
• augmenting
• raising
• enlarging
• boosting
• swelling
• amplifying
• extending
• inflating
• lengthening
• prolonging
• adding (to)
• blowing up
• dilating
• supplementing
• intensifying
• enhancing
• aggrandizing
• complementing
• distending
• heightening
• elongating
• protracting
• redoubling

2

as in decreasing

to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually

our hopes dwindled as the reports of more casualties came in

Synonyms & Similar Words

• decreasing
• diminishing
• subsiding
• declining
• shrinking
• vanishing
• falling
• ebbing
• waning
• easing
• receding
• lessening
• dropping (off)
• tapering
• dying (away or down or out)
• weakening
• moderating
• lowering
• falling away
• draining (away)
• evaporating
• tapering off
• relenting
• ratcheting (down)
• remitting
• abating
• racheting (down)
• letting up
• palling
• phasing down
• collapsing
• de-escalating
• compressing
• contracting
• melting (away)
• constricting
• fading (away)
• slackening
• alleviating
• condensing
• slowing (down)
• tailing (off)
• frittering (away)
• petering (out)
• flagging
• relaxing
• giving out
• sinking
• deflating
• caving (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• increasing
• growing
• rising
• expanding
• building
• swelling
• burgeoning
• mounting
• soaring
• intensifying
• escalating
• accumulating
• enlarging
• emerging
• picking up
• appearing
• mushrooming
• snowballing
• ballooning
• waxing
• showing up
• lengthening
• blowing up
• elongating
• distending

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dwindling

In August last year, a study by World Weather Attribution said climate change that has driven scorching temperatures and dwindling rainfall made massive wildfires in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus burn much more fiercely that summer. — ABC News, 10 July 2026

The idea has sparked debate, the sources said, with some officials worried that a pause would set back the department’s efforts to hire more police officers and replenish its dwindling ranks. — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

This choice between achievement and community has long been part of the American tradition, but, these days, for many Americans, social connection is dwindling. — Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 8 July 2026

Before too long, the family members turn into Deadites and the number of people in the home to fight them is dwindling rapidly. — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

With information about the negative effects of alcohol dominating the headlines, gatherings that were previously based strictly around booze are dwindling. — Megan Johnson, Architectural Digest, 6 July 2026

Russia’s fiscal reserves are dwindling, and oil and gas revenues have cratered as many countries rerouted to alternative suppliers. — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 2 July 2026

Indeed, in a country where jobs, pubs, the birth rate, and even immigration are all dwindling, padel is one of the few things that is really booming. — Mark Rice-Oxley, Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2026

Reynolds tracks the willingness of northern partisans—Carl Schurz, Horace Greeley, Lyman Trumbull, and even Sumner himself—to abandon that cause by the dwindling references to Jamestown and Plymouth. — James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026