whittle down

• Фразовый глагол, означающий постепенное уменьшение размера, количества или объема чего-либо, часто путем исключения или сокращения.

A phrasal verb meaning to gradually reduce the size, number, or amount of something, often through a process of elimination or cutting back.

uncountable · transitive · phrasal, separable

1. Reduce graduallyinformal

   To gradually reduce the size, number, or amount of something.

   Постепенно сокращать

   • We need to whittle down the list of candidates to just three.
   • He whittled down his expenses to save money.
   • The committee whittled down the proposals to the most feasible ones.

   Synonymscut downdecreasediminishdwindleerodelessenpare downreducescale downshrinktrimwear down

   Antonymsaugmentbuildenlargeexpandincrease

Base verbwhittle