dwindle
verb (used without object)
to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away.
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The dead weight of inheritance, always a psychological fascination for Couperus, becomes doubly fascinating when one generation after another inherits an undwindling legacy of divine, ironic whim.
From Majesty A Novel by Louis Couperus