whittled 的 3 个定义
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.
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.
- British Dialect. a knife, especially a large one, as a carving knife or a butcher knife.
whittled 近义词
cut away at; reduce
更多whittled例句
- A list of 400 disagreements over the document has been whittled down to just two.
- With Thriller, we took 800 songs and whittled them down to nine.
- And if the oligarchs around him, whom he helped create, see their billions of dollars whittled down a bit?
- By the time the House and Senate agreed to a farm bill last month, that was whittled down to $8.7 billion over 10 years.
- Eventually the producers whittled the group down to the four "pirates" in the film.
- Then he took the white bits of wood which had been under the bark and he whittled away at the ends.
- Out came the magic knife and he whittled away at the little sticks; whittled and whistled and smiled all the time.
- And as the Toyman whittled sometimes he whistled, and sometimes he sang a funny song in a funny voice.
- As for Ren, he sat on the single doorstep and whittled pegs on which to hang his rifle inside the door.
- On the surface they were of a greenish hue, but when whittled with a knife their true character appeared.