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winnowingverbpresent participle 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. culling, discarding, jettisoning, throwing away, throwing outdeclining, refusing, rejecting, turning downdisapproving, negativing, repudiating, spurningabbreviating, 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, reducingcompressing, condensing, constricting, contractingdeflating, shrinkingminimizingmoderating, modifying, modulating, qualifyingbolting, screening, sieving, siftingclarifying, clearing, distilling, filtering, fining, garbling, purifyingprocessing, rectifying, refining cherry-picking, choosing, culling, electing, handpicking, naming, opting (for), picking, preferring, selecting, singling (out), tagging, takingpreselectingappointing, designating, fixing, marking, nominating, setting, tabbing, tappingaccepting, adopting, embracing, espousingsettling (on or upon)blowing up, dilating, distending, inflating, swellingelongating, extending, lengthening, prolonging, protractingadding (to), complementing, supplementingenhancing, heightening, intensifyingredoublingaggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, enlarging, escalating, expanding, increasing, raising |