whittle down

• Verbe à particule signifiant réduire progressivement la taille, la quantité ou le volume de quelque chose, souvent en éliminant ou en retranchant des éléments.

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

indénombrable · transitif · phrasal, séparable

1. Reduce graduallyinformal

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

   réduire progressivement

   • 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.

   Synonymescut downdecreasediminishdwindleerodelessenpare downreducescale downshrinktrimwear down

   Antonymesaugmentbuildenlargeexpandincrease

Verbe de basewhittle