Present participle of dwine; the ongoing process of wasting away or declining in archaic or dialectal usage.
The -ing suffix added to 'dwine' to form the present participle, showing the action in progress in archaic English.
The archaic form 'dwining' gradually fell out of favor as English speakers preferred the newer 'dwindling,' but both forms capture the slow, continuous nature of decline.
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