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winnowedverbpast tense of winnow to remove less desirable choices from a group or listThey 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. culled, discarded, jettisoned, threw away, threw outdeclined, refused, rejected, turned downdisapproved, negatived, repudiated, spurnedabbreviated, abridged, clipped, cropped, curtailed, cut, cut back, cut down, docked, nicked, pared, pruned, retrenched, shortened, slashed, trimmed, truncated, whittled (down)abated, decreased, de-escalated, dented, depleted, downscaled, downsized, dropped, dwindled, eased, knocked down, lessened, lowered, reducedcompressed, condensed, constricted, contracteddeflated, shrank(or shrunk)minimizedmoderated, modified, modulated, qualifiedbolted, screened, sieved, siftedclarified, cleared, distilled, filtered, fined, garbled, purifiedprocessed, rectified, refined cherry-picked, chose, culled, elected, handpicked, named, opted (for), picked, preferred, selected, singled (out), tagged, tookpreselectedappointed, designated, fixed, marked, nominated, set, tabbed, tappedaccepted, adopted, embraced, espousedsettled (on or upon)blew up, dilated, distended, inflated, swelledelongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged, protractedadded (to), complemented, supplementedenhanced, heightened, intensifiedredoubledaggrandized, amplified, augmented, boosted, enlarged, escalated, expanded, increased, raised |