💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Cut back"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| reduceverb | (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower. |
| trimnoun | (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess. |
| bring downverb | (transitive) To make (a ruler or government) lose their position of power. |
| restrictverb | To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine |
| curtailverb | (transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate. |
| cut downverb | (idiomatic) To reduce the amount of something. |
| clipnoun | To grip tightly. |
| lopnoun | (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone. |
| snipnoun | To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors. |
| cutverb | (chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something. |
| flash backverb | (idiomatic) To recall or remember something; to experience a flashback. |
| dressnoun | (transitive) (also reflexive and figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe. |
| curbnoun | (transitive) To check, restrain or control. |
| cropnoun | (agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose. |
| prunenoun | (transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive. |
| trim backverb | cut down on; make a reduction in |
| trim downverb | (intransitive) To lose weight. |
| parenoun | A Bantu language spoken in Tanzania. |
| scale backverb | To make a reduction in the amount, extent, etc. of something. |
| chop downverb | (idiomatic, transitive) To curtail, shorten |
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