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cuts backverbpresent tense third-person singular of cut back to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrumentwe need to cut back the bushes a bit so that the house number is visible from the street bobs, clips, crops, cuts, docks, lops (off), nips, pares, polls, prunes, shaves, shears, snips, trims skives, whittlesmanicures, mowspinches, stumpscurtails, shortens elongates, extends, lengthens to make less in extent or durationcut back the meeting so everyone could leave early for the long weekend abbreviates, abridges, curtails, docks, elides, shortens, syncopates, truncates abstracts, digests, encapsulates, epitomizes, recapitulates, summarizes, sums upabates, compresses, constricts, contracts, cuts, cuts down, pares, prunes, trimsdecreases, de-escalates, deflates, diminishes, downsizes, dwindles, lessens, lowers, moderates, modifies, reduces, retrenches, shrinks, slashes, subtracts (from), tapers elongates, extends, lengthens, prolongs, protracts enlarges, expands, supplementsadds, aggrandizes, amplifies, augments, balloons, boosts, dilates, escalates, heightens, increases, maximizes, pumps up, raisesblows up, distends, inflates, swells |