pare down

Strongest matches

• cut back
• decrease
• diminish
• downsize
• halt
• lessen
• reduce
• shorten
• slash
• trim

Strong matches

• abbreviate
• chop
• clip
• contract
• cramp
• cut
• dock
• lop
• minify
• retrench
• truncate

Weak matches

• boil down
• get to meat
• put in nutshell
• roll back

Strongest match

• shear

Strong matches

• chop
• clip
• crop
• cut
• mow
• pare
• prune
• snip
• truncate

Weak matches

• cut back
• cut down

Strongest matches

• cut back
• shave
• shear
• shorten
• snip

Strong matches

• clip
• dock
• eliminate
• exclude
• gut
• lop
• reduce
• shape
• skive
• thin

Weak match

• knock off

Strongest matches

• clip
• curtail
• cut
• cut back
• cut down
• mow
• pare
• prune
• shave
• shear
• shorten
• whittle down

Strong matches

• abbreviate
• barber
• bob
• crop
• dock
• edit
• lop
• plane
• snip
• tidy
• truncate

Weak matches

• blue pencil
• boil down
• even up
• put in a nutshell
• slice off