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whittlingverbpresent participle of whittle to cause to diminish gradually by or as if by cutting off bits with a knifeHe was sitting on the porch, whittling a stick. abbreviating, abridging, clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, cutting down, docking, nicking, paring, pruning, retrenching, shortening, slashing, trimming, truncatingabating, decreasing, de-escalating, denting, depleting, downscaling, downsizing, dropping, dwindling, easing, knocking down, lessening, lowering, reducingcompressing, condensing, constricting, contractingdeflating, shrinkingminimizingmoderating, modifying, modulating, qualifying blowing up, dilating, distending, inflating, swellingelongating, extending, lengthening, prolonging, protractingadding (to), complementing, supplementingenhancing, heightening, intensifyingredoublingaggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, enlarging, escalating, expanding, increasing, raising in 1833 |