Thesaurus / bant
other words for bant
- curtail
- cut
- cut down
- diminish
- dwindle
- lessen
- lower
- pare
- scale down
- shorten
- slash
- trim
- weaken
- abate
- abridge
- bankrupt
- break
- cheapen
- chop
- clip
- contract
- debase
- deflate
- depreciate
- depress
- diet
- dilute
- discount
- drain
- impair
- impoverish
- moderate
- pauperize
- rebate
- recede
- ruin
- shave
- slim
- taper
- truncate
- cut back
- go on a diet
- lose weight
- mark down
- nutshell
- roll back
- slow down
- step down
- take off weight
- taper off
- tone down
- turn down
- wind down
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Every rich Bant keeps his kambla field consecrated to buffalo-racing, and his pair of racing buffaloes, costing from Rs.
CASTES AND TRIBES OF SOUTHERN INDIAEDGAR THURSTON
A nice verb, to bant, though not approved of by the dictionary, which scornfully terms it “humorous and colloquial”.
PENGUIN PERSONS & PEPPERMINTSWALTER PRICHARD EATON
Fines inflicted by the Bant caste council are, I am informed, spent in the celebration of a temple festival.
CASTES AND TRIBES OF SOUTHERN INDIAEDGAR THURSTON
Banting, bant′ing, n. a system of diet for reducing superfluous fat.
The foregoing account shows that the Bant marriage is a good deal more than concubinage.
CASTES AND TRIBES OF SOUTHERN INDIAEDGAR THURSTON
And I can stand it,' says I, 'I'd rather batten than bant any day.'
THE GENTLE GRAFTERO. HENRY
WORDS RELATED TO BANT
- abate
- abridge
- bankrupt
- bant
- break
- cheapen
- chop
- clip
- contract
- curtail
- cut
- cut back
- cut down
- debase
- deflate
- depreciate
- depress
- diet
- dilute
- diminish
- discount
- drain
- dwindle
- go on a diet
- impair
- impoverish
- lessen
- lose weight
- lower
- mark down
- moderate
- nutshell
- pare
- pauperize
- rebate
- recede
- roll back
- ruin
- scale down
- shave
- shorten
- slash
- slim
- slow down
- step down
- take off weight
- taper
- taper off
- tone down
- trim
- truncate
- turn down
- weaken
- wind down
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.