Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To waste away; dwindle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To dwindle away; to disappear.
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- verb intransitive, obsolete To
fade away;waste away ;decay ;dwindle ;wither ;vanish .
Etymologies
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From Middle English fordwinen, from Old English fordwīnan ("to dwindle away, vanish"), from Proto-Germanic *fra- (“for-”), *dwīnanan (“to disappear, dwindle”), from Proto-Indo-European *dgʷhey- (“to disappear, die”), equivalent to for- + dwine. Cognate with Dutch verdwijnen ("to disappear, vanish"). More at for-, dwine.
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