Verb - to become smaller and smaller, waste away
Frequency: 2
Here are all of the speeches where dwindle shows up across the corpus:
Bardolph
,
am
I
not
fallen
away
vilely
since
this
last
action
?
Do
I
not
bate
?
Do
I
not
dwindle
?
Why
,
my
skin
hangs
about
me
like
an
old
lady’s
loose
gown
.
I
am
withered
like
an
old
applejohn
.
Well
,
I’ll
repent
,
and
that
suddenly
,
while
I
am
in
some
liking
.
I
shall
be
out
of
heart
shortly
,
and
then
I
shall
have
no
strength
to
repent
.
An
I
have
not
forgotten
what
the
inside
of
a
church
is
made
of
,
I
am
a
peppercorn
,
a
brewer’s
horse
.
The
inside
of
a
church
!
Company
,
villainous
company
,
hath
been
the
spoil
of
me
.
I
myself
have
all
the
other
,
And
the
very
ports
they
blow
;
,
All
the
quarters
that
they
know
I’
th’
shipman’s
card
.
I’ll
drain
him
dry
as
hay
.
Sleep
shall
neither
night
nor
day
Hang
upon
his
penthouse
lid
.
He
shall
live
a
man
forbid
.
Weary
sev’nnights
,
nine
times
nine
,
Shall
he
dwindle
,
peak
,
and
pine
.
Though
his
bark
cannot
be
lost
,
Yet
it
shall
be
tempest-tossed
.
Look
what
I
have
.