- Cut down - Trim - Trim (nails) - Trim with a knife - To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or
extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof. - To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin,
ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away; as;
to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies. - Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.
- Abbreviate - Contract to topple thrones - Cut down Aussie politician - Reduce in length - To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as,
to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity. - To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to
lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an
allowance of food, etc. - To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.