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See definition of cutting down on Dictionary.com
  • as incontraction
  • as inreducing

synonyms for cutting down

  • decrease
  • deflation
  • recession
  • reduction
  • shrinkage
  • abbreviation
  • abridgment
  • compression
  • condensation
  • condensing
  • confinement
  • constriction
  • curtailment
  • diminution
  • dwindling
  • elision
  • evaporation
  • lessening
  • narrowing
  • omission
  • receding
  • reducing
  • shrinking
  • tightening
  • withdrawal
  • abbreviating
  • confining
  • curtailing
  • decreasing
  • deflating
  • diminishing
  • drawing together
  • evaporating
  • omitting
  • tensing
  • withdrawing
On this page you'll find 69 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cutting down, such as: decrease, deflation, recession, reduction, shrinkage, and abbreviation.

antonyms for cutting down

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  • enlargement
  • increase
  • expansion
  • opening
  • amplification
  • dilation
  • extension
  • lengthening
  • spread
  • stretch
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How to use cutting down in a sentence

But the rivers, by cutting down and tilling up, have long since obliterated these water areas.
OUTLINES OF THE EARTH'S HISTORYNATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALER
I have sent him a pretty sharp answer in favour of cutting down the memorial and giving more to the widow and children.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - SWANSTON EDITION VOL. 25 (OF 25)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
He told me yesterday they had more money than they could lend and that the banks were cutting down their dividends.
A HOOSIER CHRONICLEMEREDITH NICHOLSON
I learned to swing an axe by cutting down saplings, and ran "amuck" among them just as my elders did among the larger trees.
THE RED COW AND HER FRIENDSPETER MCARTHUR
A blast of canister swept through, cutting down shrubs, splattering the mud, and shrieking viciously.
SI KLEGG, BOOK 2 (OF 6)JOHN MCELROY
The sisters, absorbed in their task of cutting down the tree, did not notice that their bird was flown.
THE MYTHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANSLEWIS SPENCE
A lynx was seen to spring upon him and carry him off, as he was going out to finish cutting down a large tree.
BLACKFEET TALES OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARKJAMES WILLARD SCHULTZ
But do not have potatoes all the time; boiled rice is cheaper when you are cutting down expenses.
LIVING ON A LITTLECAROLINE FRENCH BENTON
Naki, her husband, was some distance away, cutting down the underbrush which was growing too high near their cabin.
THE AUTOMOBILE GIRLS IN THE BERKSHIRESLAURA DENT CRANE
Behind the rush of the partidarios the dragoons closed in, cutting down without mercy any who yet kept their feet.
PONCE DE LEONWILLIAM PILLING
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO CUTTING DOWN

  • abbreviating
  • abbreviation
  • abridgment
  • compression
  • condensation
  • condensing
  • confinement
  • confining
  • constriction
  • curtailing
  • curtailment
  • cutting down
  • decrease
  • decreasing
  • deflating
  • deflation
  • diminishing
  • diminution
  • drawing together
  • dwindling
  • elision
  • evaporating
  • evaporation
  • lessening
  • narrowing
  • omission
  • omitting
  • receding
  • recession
  • reducing
  • reduction
  • shrinkage
  • shrinking
  • tensing
  • tightening
  • withdrawal
  • withdrawing
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.