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cutting backverbpresent participle 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 bobbing, clipping, cropping, cutting, docking, lopping (off), nipping, paring, polling, pruning, shaving, shearing, snipping, trimming skiving, whittlingmanicuring, mowingpinching, stumpingcurtailing, shortening elongating, extending, lengthening to make less in extent or durationcut back the meeting so everyone could leave early for the long weekend abbreviating, abridging, curtailing, docking, eliding, shortening, syncopating, truncating abstracting, digesting, encapsulating, epitomizing, recapitulating, summarizing, summing upabating, compressing, constricting, contracting, cutting, cutting down, paring, pruning, trimmingdecreasing, de-escalating, deflating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, moderating, modifying, reducing, retrenching, shrinking, slashing, subtracting (from), tapering elongating, extending, lengthening, prolonging, protracting enlarging, expanding, supplementingadding, aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, ballooning, boosting, dilating, escalating, heightening, increasing, maximizing, pumping up, raisingblowing up, distending, inflating, swelling |