cut to the bone

Strongest matches

• abbreviated
• brief
• crisp
• precise
• shortened
• terse

Strong matches

• bare
• compressed
• condensed
• curtailed
• decreased
• diminished
• fleeting
• lessened
• little
• summarized
• summary

Weak matches

• aphoristic
• boiled down
• breviloquent
• compendiary
• compendious
• concise
• curtate
• cut short
• decurtate
• epigrammatic
• in a nutshell
• laconic
• momentary
• not protracted
• pithy
• sententious
• short and sweet
• short-term
• succinct
• undersized
• unprolonged
• unsustained

Strongest matches

• blunt
• concise
• curt
• pithy
• terse

Weak matches

• boiled down
• breviloquent
• brusque
• compact
• compendiary
• compendious
• condensed
• in a nutshell
• in few words
• laconic
• short
• summary

Strongest matches

• brusque
• concise
• cryptic
• curt
• elliptical
• incisive
• laconic
• pithy
• precise
• succinct
• trenchant

Weak matches

• abrupt
• aphoristic
• boiled down
• breviloquent
• clear-cut
• clipped
• close
• compact
• compendiary
• compendious
• condensed
• crisp
• epigrammatic
• exact
• gnomic
• in a nutshell
• lean
• neat
• pointed
• sententious
• short and sweet
• snappy
• summary
• taut
• to the point

Strongest matches

• condense
• extract
• infuse
• refine

Strong matches

• brew
• clarify
• concentrate
• cook
• cut
• dribble
• drip
• drop
• evaporate
• express
• ferment
• precipitate
• press
• purify
• rarefy
• rectify
• steam
• sublimate
• trickle
• trim
• vaporize
• volatilize

Weak matches

• boil down
• cut down
• get to the meat
• press out
• squeeze out

Strongest matches

• abbreviate
• compress
• curtail
• cut
• cut back
• cut down
• lessen
• minimize
• reduce
• shrink
• slash
• trim

Strong matches

• abridge
• bob
• chop
• clip
• condense
• contract
• dock
• edit
• elide
• excerpt
• lop
• retrench
• snip

Weak matches

• blue pencil
• boil down
• make a long story short
• put in a nutshell