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dwindle

Shakespearean Definition:

Verb - to become smaller and smaller, waste away

Frequency: 2

Here are all of the speeches where dwindle shows up across the corpus:

Henry IV, Part 1

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 .

Macbeth


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 .