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whittle down

/hwit-l, wit-l/US // ˈʰwɪt l, ˈwɪt l //UK // (ˈwɪtəl) //

缩减,缩减开支,削减

Related Words

trim修剪,修饰,修整,修剪的shave刮胡子,剃须,刮痧,脱毛pare划线,帕尔,刡erode冲蚀,侵蚀,腐蚀,蚀lessen减轻,减少,减轻了,减低diminish减弱,贬低,减轻,削弱hew砍伐,砍伐树木,呵,砍伐的consume消耗,消费,消耗掉,消耗的form形式,表格,形成,形状chip芯片,筹码,晶片,碎片shape形状,外形,造型,形态fashion时尚,时尚界,时尚界的decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌carve雕刻,雕饰,雕琢,刻model模型,模式,模范,模特儿mold霉菌,塑造,铸模,霉变undermine损害,破坏,颠覆,削弱sculpt雕塑,雕琢,雕刻,雕像eat away吃掉,吃掉了,吃了,吃光wear away消磨掉,磨损,消损,消磨

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    whit·tled, whit·tling.

    • : to cut, trim, or shape by carving off bits with a knife.
    • : to form by whittling: to whittle a figure.
    • : to cut off.
    • : to reduce the amount of, as if by whittling; pare down; take away by degrees: to whittle down the company's overhead; to whittle away one's inheritance.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    whit·tled, whit·tling.

    • : to whittle wood or the like with a knife, as in shaping something or as a mere aimless diversion: to spend an afternoon whittling.
    • : to tire oneself or another by worrying or fussing.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : British Dialect. a knife, especially a large one, as a carving knife or a butcher knife.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as intrim
Synonyms
clip夹子,剪辑,剪切,剪贴画curtail缩减,削减,缩短,缩水cut切,切割,削减,割cut back缩减,削减,裁减,缩减开支cut down削减,砍伐,砍掉,削减了mow割草,除草,刈割,割除pare划线,帕尔,刡prune修剪,修枝,修理,修整shave刮胡子,剃须,刮痧,脱毛shear剪切力,剪切,剪断,剪切性shorten缩短,简化,缩减,弄短abbreviate缩略语,缩略,简略,缩减barber理发师,理发员,理发店,理发bob鲍勃,鲍伯,波布,鲍勃先生crop庄稼人,稼穑,庄稼,庄稼汉dock码头,船坞,码头上的,码头上edit编辑,编辑部,编辑本段,编者lop贷款,圈圈plane飞机,平面,平面图,飞机上snip剪切,剪辑,剪贴,剪下tidy整洁,整洁的,整齐的,整齐truncate截断,截短,截断的,切断blue pencil蓝铅笔,蓝色铅笔,蓝色笔筒,蓝笔boil down熬炼,熬制,沸腾,煮熟even up扯平了,扯平,匀称的,匀称pare down缩减,缩减开支,减轻,减轻负担put in a nutshell简而言之,归纳起来就是,归纳起来,概括地说slice off切开,切掉,切断,割掉

Examples

  • Neither Cipriani nor Whittle responded to requests for comment.

  • In spite of his new entrepreneurial vision, Whittle maintains his good feelings towards the Pacha owners.

  • In fact, Bomba almost turned into a nightmare for the Cipriani-Whittle duo.

  • How did you whittle all that material into the final shape of the film?

  • And as Bill Whittle put it, “Republicans should commit to their own story.”

  • Wal, Capm, fust thing is to fish up a bit 'f driftwood 'n' whittle out 'nother paddle.

  • He'd sit with his cigar tilted up in one corner of his mouth, and his hat tilted forward, and whittle sticks.

  • Anyone can whittle these little sticks out, using any kind of hard wood.

  • The other picked up a pine splinter from the wharf, and producing a knife, began to whittle it.

  • Lawyer Whittle was fined two pecks of apples and cigars for wearing a stovepipe hat and so the fun went on, day after day.

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