| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut shorter |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, barber, blue pencil, bob, boil down, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, dock, edit, even up, lop, mow, pare, pare down, plane, prune, put in a nutshell, shave, shear, shorten, slice off, snip, tidy, truncate, whittle down |
| Antonyms: | develop, let grow |