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dockingverb1present participle of dock to make less in extent or durationthe editorial was docked by about a hundred words to make it fit on the page abbreviating, abridging, curtailing, cutting back, 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 to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrumentthe boxer's tail was docked soon after birth bobbing, clipping, cropping, cutting, cutting back, lopping (off), nipping, paring, polling, pruning, shaving, shearing, snipping, trimming skiving, whittlingmanicuring, mowingpinching, stumpingcurtailing, shortening elongating, extending, lengthening to stop at or near a place along the shorethe cruise ship docked at the first port of call early the next morning anchoring, landing berthing, mooring, tying up(or tieing up)beaching, groundingharboringarriving, reaching, showing up, turning updebarking, disembarking making port embarking, launching, sailing |