- svinde
- vb (svandt, svundet)(aftage, mindskes) decrease,F decline ( fx his influence (, strength) declined; as the day declined he ...); fade ( fx hope of finding him alive is fading),(stærkere) dwindle ( fx his hope dwindled);(skrumpe ind) shrink ( fx meat shrinks in cooking),(om hævelse) go down ( fx my ankle is going down), decrease ( fxthe swelling decreased daily),(om lyd, lys: blive svagere) fade (away) ( fx the colours of the sky began to fade; the voices faded away into the distance), die away;(om tid: hengå) pass;[svindende kræfter] ebbing (el. waning) strength;(se også svunden);[ med præp & adv:][svinde bort, svinde hen] fade away,(om tid) pass,(se også ndf: svinde ind);[det svandt i beholdningerne] the stocks dwindled (el. shrank),(stærkt) the stocks began to give out (, F: were depleted);[svinde ind] decrease ( fx the population of the village had decreased to a few hundred people),(hen imod komplet forsvinden) dwindle ( fx the boat dwindled to a speck; his great fortune dwindled rapidly);(skrumpe ind) shrink ( fx metal shrinks when cooling; business at his shop has (, their earnings have) shrunk almost to nothing);(om person: svækkes) fade away ( fx during his illness he faded away to nothing).
Danish-English dictionary. 2013.