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Synonyms and Antonyms of winnowing
- They winnowed the pool of applicants down to a few of the strongest candidates.
- I tried to winnow out the options that weren't a good value for the price.
culling, discarding, jettisoning, throwing away, throwing out
declining, refusing, rejecting, turning down
disapproving, negativing, repudiating, spurning
abbreviating, abridging, clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, cutting down, docking, nicking, paring, pruning, retrenching, shortening, slashing, trimming, truncating, whittling (down)
abating, decreasing, de-escalating, denting, depleting, downscaling, downsizing, dropping, dwindling, easing, knocking down, lessening, lowering, reducing
compressing, condensing, constricting, contracting
moderating, modifying, modulating, qualifying
bolting, screening, sieving, sifting
clarifying, clearing, distilling, filtering, fining, garbling, purifying
cherry-picking, choosing, culling, electing, handpicking, naming, opting (for), picking, preferring, selecting, singling (out), tagging, taking
appointing, designating, fixing, marking, nominating, setting, tabbing, tapping
accepting, adopting, embracing, espousing
blowing up, dilating, distending, inflating, swelling
elongating, extending, lengthening, prolonging, protracting
adding (to), complementing, supplementing
enhancing, heightening, intensifying
aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, enlarging, escalating, expanding, increasing, raising
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