: to become steadily less : shrink 

• Their savings dwindled to nothing.
• a dwindling population
• transitive verb : to make steadily less .   

While I was reading one of the essays in project 4, I encountered this word “Dwindle” and I  knew I heard that word before, but I didn’t know where I heard it from. I wasn’t sure what the word meant,  so I used contexts clues to see if I could understand the word better.  This is where I encountered Dwindle,  “All three articles explained the positives of walking and how it may dwindle depression and can stop a person from brooding.” I read this sentence multiple times and the only words that come across to my head was lessen or decrease. I went online and search up the definition and understood what dwindle meant.  An example of using dwindle, The panda population is dwindling…. etc…