Synonyms of whittling (down)

whittling (down)

verb

present participle of whittle (down)

as in cutting down

Related Words

• cutting down
• cutting back
• turning down
• knocking down
• shortening
• curtailing
• clipping
• pruning
• reducing
• slashing
• cropping
• paring
• abridging
• decreasing
• truncating
• trimming
• throwing away
• docking
• retrenching
• cutting
• nicking
• abbreviating
• throwing out
• lessening
• spurning
• disapproving
• downsizing
• dwindling
• depleting
• lowering
• refusing
• negativing
• repudiating
• denting
• downscaling
• easing
• rejecting
• declining
• compressing
• abating
• condensing
• contracting
• discarding
• culling
• constricting
• minimizing
• winnowing
• de-escalating
• shrinking
• jettisoning
• dropping
• modifying
• modulating
• deflating
• moderating
• qualifying
• screening
• sifting
• sieving
• bolting

Dissimilar Words

• singling (out)
• opting (for)
• selecting
• taking
• choosing
• picking
• settling (on or upon)
• electing
• naming
• preferring
• culling
• adding (to)
• setting
• marking
• tagging
• fixing
• tapping
• adopting
• appointing
• designating
• blowing up
• accepting
• embracing
• nominating
• swelling
• extending
• espousing
• handpicking
• inflating
• cherry-picking
• lengthening
• preselecting
• prolonging
• increasing
• dilating
• supplementing
• enhancing
• tabbing
• elongating
• complementing
• intensifying
• expanding
• heightening
• raising
• distending
• augmenting
• escalating
• enlarging
• amplifying
• boosting
• protracting
• redoubling
• aggrandizing