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71dwindle — dwin|dle [ dwındl ] verb intransitive to become gradually less or smaller over a period of time until almost nothing remains: Resources are dwindling. dwindle to: Water supplies have dwindled to their lowest level in ten years. dwindle away: Her… …
72dwindle — [[t]dwɪ̱nd(ə)l[/t]] dwindles, dwindling, dwindled VERB If something dwindles, it becomes smaller, weaker, or less in number. The factory s workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred... Exports are dwindling and the trade deficit is… …
73dwindle — verb (I) also dwindle away to gradually become less and less or smaller and smaller: The workforce has dwindled since its pre war heyday. | dwindle (away) to nothing/one/two etc: Their supply of food had dwindled to almost nothing. dwindling… …
74dwindle — verb 1) the population dwindled Syn: diminish, decrease, reduce, lessen, shrink; fall off, tail off, drop, fall, slump, plummet; disappear, vanish, die out; informal nosedive Ant …
75dwindle — [c]/ˈdwɪndl / (say dwindl) verb (dwindled, dwindling) –verb (i) 1. to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: his vast fortune has dwindled away. 2. to fall away, as in quality; degenerate. –verb (t) 3. to make smaller and smaller; cause… …
76ALEPPO — (Ar. Ḥalab; called by the Jews Aram Ẓoba (Aram Ẓova), second largest city in Syria and the center of northern Syria. The Hebrew form of Aleppo (Ḥaleb) is, according to a legend quoted by the 12th century traveler, pethahiah of regensburg ,… …
77AMSTERDAM — AMSTERDAM, constitutional capital of the netherlands . Ashkenazim until 1795 DEMOGRAPHY AND ECONOMY The beginning The first Ashkenazim arrived in Amsterdam from the end of the 1610s onwards. They left the German countries owing to the Thirty… …
78ARGENTINA — ARGENTINA, South American Federal Republic, general population (2004) 39,150,000; Jewish population 190,000. This entry is arranged according to the following outline: colonial period modern period legal basis for jewish life history EARLY JEWISH …
79ASIA — History Jewish history originated in this continent, in the Near Eastern complex of the Fertile Crescent. The journeyings of the patriarchs led from ur of the Chaldees in present day iraq through the Fertile Crescent to egypt . In antiquity,… …
80CAIRO — CAIRO, capital of egypt . The presence of Jews in Cairo can be traced to a very early date. Fustat (old Cairo) was founded in 641 by the Arab conqueror of Egypt, ʿAmr ibn al ʿÂṣ, near the Byzantine fortress Babylon. It is almost certain that Jews …
