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What is another word for
whittling
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Present participle for to cut away at something
Present participle for to form or shape something by cutting
Present participle for to gradually reduce in size, amount, or extent
Present participle for to diminish in strength or potency
Present participle for to knock or cut pieces off (a hard material)
Present participle for to cut (a thin slice or slices) from the surface of something
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Verb
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Present participle for to cut away at something
carving
cutting
paring
chipping
hewing
peeling
trimming
shaving
slashing
hacking
sundering
dissecting
incising
cleaving
dissevering
cropping
pruning
clipping
shearing
snipping
docking
bobbing
lopping
nipping
polling
skinning
stripping
skiving
flaying
scraping
excoriating
thinning
decorticating
scalping
lopping off
paring off
shaving off
knocking off
cutting off
trimming off
peeling off
clipping off
stripping off
“To shape the arrows, you first need to
whittle
the wood so that it is smooth around its circumference.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to form or shape something by cutting
shaping
forming
modelling
UK
modeling
US
sculpting
moulding
UK
molding
US
fashioning
sculpturing
carving
casting
forging
framing
chiseling
US
chiselling
UK
cutting
hewing
making
fabricating
creating
chipping
patterning
fitting
constructing
styling
assembling
building
working
kneading
hammering
manipulating
designing
plying
engraving
manufacturing
scoring
etching
inscribing
incising
thumbing
fingering
erecting
devising
configuring
die-casting
putting together
turning out
knocking together
adapting
adjusting
tailoring
conditioning
blocking
pruning
striking
stroking
rough-hewing
smoothing
patting
roughhewing
crystallising
UK
accommodating
trimming
suiting
conforming
minting
crystallizing
US
doctoring
editing
blocking out
throwing together
bringing together
producing
composing
developing
contriving
crafting
setting up
inventing
originating
concocting
engineering
formulating
making up
conceiving
confecting
preparing
organizing
US
establishing
putting up
bringing about
generating
cooking up
organising
UK
hatching
founding
piecing
drawing up
planning
authoring
knocking off
executing
drafting
raising
initiating
thinking up
dreaming up
rendering
arranging
processing
constituting
coming up with
affecting
instituting
piecing together
coining
throwing up
effecting
building up
fitting together
rearing
instigating
prefabricating
issuing
actualizing
working out
setting
laying out
knocking out
sketching
bringing into being
drawing
synthesizing
US
hammering out
outlining
launching
introducing
knocking up
plotting
projecting
whipping up
determining
completing
excogitating
prefabbing
structuring
choreographing
commencing
readying
synthesising
UK
brewing
mass-producing
beginning
doing
influencing
churning out
catalyzing
US
innovating
catalysing
UK
effectuating
guiding
cobbling up
drumming up
fudging together
installing
beating
brainstorming
bringing into existence
scheming
spawning
vamping
starting
writing
joining
inaugurating
discovering
compiling
fixing
orchestrating
sketching out
compounding
conceiving of
mapping out
giving rise to
transforming
trumping up
vamping up
bringing to pass
rigging
pioneering
pounding
converting
stamping
directing
malleating
controlling
steering
leading
dressing
masterminding
procuring
modifying
sculping
remodeling
US
remodelling
UK
turning
growing
tracing
decorating
yielding
mixing
begetting
achieving
calculating
budgeting
accomplishing
perfecting
laying
reconstructing
blueprinting
becoming
elevating
tooling
spearheading
fathering
charting
beating into shape
envisioning
making ready
carving out
enacting
beating out
fixing up
roughing out
providing
getting ready
working up
evolving
strategizing about
scheming out
superstructing
running up
fulfilling
carrying out
bringing on
realizing
US
machinating
throwing
cobbling together
securing
germinating
setting in motion
setting down
engendering
realising
UK
materializing
US
materialising
UK
jerry-building
putting in motion
banging out
putting in place
swaying
purposing
painting
arranging for
cultivating
propagating
jockeying
harvesting
defining
revolutionizing
US
bringing out
finishing
consummating
ornamenting
carpentering
edifying
deriving
imagining
delineating
gearing
embarking on
implementing
ushering in
connecting
chasing
embellishing
adumbrating
exercising
thrashing out
kicking off
coming out with
modernizing
US
fixing in position
welding
sewing
comping
rustling up
whipping out
rigging up
patching together
eking out
fixing together
diagramming
strategizing
comprising
diagraming
putting out
industrialising
UK
industrializing
US
skeletoning
roughing
revolutionising
UK
inducting
ringing in
modernising
UK
starting out
advancing
handling
milling
machining
cobbling
conjuring up
starting up
releasing
regulating
spitting out
fangling
bearing
joining up
equipping
supplying
bringing
translating into
patching up
deciding
accoutreing
outfitting
accoutring
furnishing
prepping
sewing up
cranking out
grinding out
pumping out
trotting out
tossing off
appointing
anticipating
grooming
endowing
premeditating
slating
changing
contemplating
tending
labouring
UK
blending
squeezing
laboring
US
ordering
representing
mapping
forecasting
conspiring
detailing
improvising
fabulizing
fitting out
getting up
settling on
planning out
faking it
fictionalising
UK
fictionalizing
US
storifying
playing it by ear
winging it
ad-libbing
putting on
making preparations for
preparing for
scheduling
penciling in
coordinating
laying on
making arrangements for
having
planning for
jacking up
smoothing the way
putting in order
filling in
making provision
altering
thinking ahead
caring for
working on
swinging
mutating
refashioning
rebuilding
remaking
intriguing
chalking out
meditating
thinking out
quarterbacking
categorising
UK
fixing to
figuring out
laying in provisions
figuring on
setting out
lining up
reckoning on
bargaining for
making arrangements
roughing in
metamorphosing
emulating
copying
imitating
following
bringing off
bringing to fruition
carrying through
making a reality
making happen
transmuting
transposing
transfiguring
restyling
refitting
causing to happen
categorizing
US
translating
varying
making over
whomping up
hashing out
more ❯
“You can
whittle
away at the round peg until it fits in the square hole.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to gradually reduce in size, amount, or extent
reducing
lessening
cutting
decreasing
shrinking
trimming
diminishing
pruning
cutting back
cutting down
scaling down
making cutbacks in
making reductions in
paring down
whittling down
slimming down
axing
lowering
minimizing
US
tapering
easing
depleting
curtailing
limiting
moderating
mitigating
lightening
quelling
downscaling
tempering
curbing
alleviating
abating
dialing down
winding down
paring
slashing
dropping
toning down
rolling back
clipping
bringing down
decrementing
relaxing
couching
tapering off
declining
de-escalating
restraining
waning
attenuating
denting
tailing off
trimming down
casting down
impairing
tightening
easing off
slackening
downgrading
weakening
making less
extenuating
making smaller
ebbing
taking down
sinking
drying up
taking the edge off
minimising
UK
eroding
slowing down
restricting
qualifying
minifying
dropping off
petering out
dwindling
amortising
UK
depressing
trimming back
stepping down
diluting
degrading
marking down
running down
devaluating
amortizing
US
shaving
contracting
rounding down
shortening
downsizing
rationing
cutting back on
levelling down
averaging down
repressing
cutting down on
shedding
abridging
cheapening
breaking
devaluing
depreciating
truncating
deflating
undervaluing
demoting
narrowing
discounting
putting down
reducing greatly
retrenching
removing
deleting
eliminating
omitting
confining
subduing
damping down
stifling
getting rid of
knocking down
writing off
writing down
causing to fall
easing up on
whittling away
taking off
more ❯
“Tory MPs will
whittle
the candidates down to two in a series of ballots starting on October 18.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to diminish in strength or potency
diminishing
reducing
compromising
eroding
weakening
undermining
crippling
marring
damaging
emasculating
enfeebling
hindering
hurting
impairing
impeding
sapping
threatening
consuming
destroying
injuring
sabotaging
shaking
subverting
ruining
spoiling
eating away
wearing away
whittling away
“As hardships, mutiny and betrayal
whittle
away his power to endure and to lead, his attachment to Laura gradually increases.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to knock or cut pieces off (a hard material)
chipping
fragmenting
chiseling
US
chiselling
UK
breaking
cracking
crumbling
flaking
hewing
splintering
gashing
hacking
shearing
slivering
splitting
chopping
clipping
hackling
incising
paring
snipping
blemishing
slashing
slicing
spalling
breaking off
cracking off
cutting away
cutting off
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cut (a thin slice or slices) from the surface of something
shaving
paring
skinning
scraping
stripping
peeling
shearing
decorticating
planing
slicing
slivering
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