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Перевод: dwindle

[глагол]
терять значение; сокращаться; уменьшаться; истощаться; ухудшаться; вырождаться; приходить в упадок

Тезаурус:

1. Carbon tet's main use is as a feedstock for CFC production (and this is clearly going to dwindle away) but ICI does sell it to the laboratory suppliers for repackaging.
2. As winter approaches, food supplies dwindle to almost nil; if the hedgehogs did not hibernate, they would probably starve.
3. When coastal stocks began to dwindle Japan looked to species frequenting deeper waters, such as the rorquals (and others).
4. "Dwindle, peak and pine", DC 52.
5. Murder of Duncan briefly shocks him back into some half-remembered humane responses, though these quickly dwindle again in renewed surfeits of horror.
6. Managers came and went at an alarming rate; there was Board Room take-over; gates began to dwindle and the Palace were candidates for relegation from well before Christmas.
7. Without early intimation of dates of training sessions enthusiasm for training could dwindle quickly.
8. However, as the project came to a close the total budget provided in the grant for support workers began to dwindle and the development officers were instructed to make careful calculations of their expenditure in order not to exceed the total available.
9. The greatest problem for many elderly people is that relationships tend to dwindle.
10. At the other end of the age range employees who have not taken advantage of the incentives to contract out of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme (SERPS) should do so before they dwindle away altogether.
11. Dwindle to fine , well fashion'd , and well dress'd .
12. Somewhere along the line, real communication can break down and talking together dwindle to basic exchanges about the practical commonplaces of daily life - "Did you remember to post the letters?" - "Will you pick up Auntie?"
13. The first priority was to re-establish the team unity that had been allowed to dwindle, with the result that there had been much arguing and bickering The old inter-island rivalries that Worrell had eradicated had surfaced again, and he knew the team would accomplish little until these disappeared.